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NABOKOV, Vladimir (1899-1977). Lolita. Paris: S.I.P. for The Olympia Press, 1955.
2 volumes, 8° (178 x 110mm). Original green printed wrappers (edges lightly rubbed, spines slightly creased, wrappers partially separated from block of volume I). Provenance: Lundgrens, Malmo (bookseller's labels on inside of upper wrappers).
FIRST EDITION, issue b. 'WHEN YOU DO READ LOLITA, PLEASE MARK THAT IT IS A HIGHLY MORAL AFFAIR' (Nabokov to Edmund Wilson, S. Karlinsky (ed.) Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya. The Nabokov-Wilson Letters 1940-1971 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: 2001), p.331). Written between 1947 and 1954, Lolita was rejected by a series of American publishers (including Viking, Simon and Schuster, and Farrar, Straus), before it was published by The Olympia Press in Paris in September 1955. Initially the publication of Lolita attracted little attention, until its inclusion by Graham Greene in his 'books of the year' in The Sunday Times. On the strength of Greene's recommendation, the journalist John Gordon of The Sunday Express bought and read the book, and published a strongly critical article which described Lolita as 'without doubt [...] the filthiest book that I have ever read' (quoted in Juliar Vladimir Nabokov p.692). This article triggered an exchange with Greene in the correspondence columns of the London newspapers and journals which brought the book to the attention of a wide audience, although the means did not, unsurprisingly, delight Nabokov. As he wrote to the American critic Edmund Wilson, 'A foul little flurry in the London papers concerning LOLITA has been demurely alluded to by Harvey Breit in his column. When you do read LOLITA, please mark that it is a highly moral affair [...] In the same issue of the Book Review there is a nice advertisement of Books on Sex, with ''patients telling their case histories in their own words.'' I am extremely irritated by the turn my nymphet's destiny is taking, but although I foreglimpsed the situation, I have no inkling how to act, nor do I know even what kind of assistance or defence I can expect in our times when crusades are definitely vieux jeu' (Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya, p.331).
In 1956 the French Ministère de l'Intérieur banned Lolita at the request of the British Home Office, prompting protests from intellectual circles. The ban was lifted by a French court in 1958, only to be re-instated six months later, to remain in force until September 1959. Ironically, the succès de scandale generated by the attempts to censor Lolita ensured large sales for the work, the proceeds of which permitted Nabokov to resign from his acadaemic duties, and give his time fully to writing. Juliar Vladimir Nabokov A28.1.1, issue b (with the printed price of 'Francs : 900' neatly scored through on the lower wrapper of volume I). (2)
2 volumes, 8° (178 x 110mm). Original green printed wrappers (edges lightly rubbed, spines slightly creased, wrappers partially separated from block of volume I). Provenance: Lundgrens, Malmo (bookseller's labels on inside of upper wrappers).
FIRST EDITION, issue b. 'WHEN YOU DO READ LOLITA, PLEASE MARK THAT IT IS A HIGHLY MORAL AFFAIR' (Nabokov to Edmund Wilson, S. Karlinsky (ed.) Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya. The Nabokov-Wilson Letters 1940-1971 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: 2001), p.331). Written between 1947 and 1954, Lolita was rejected by a series of American publishers (including Viking, Simon and Schuster, and Farrar, Straus), before it was published by The Olympia Press in Paris in September 1955. Initially the publication of Lolita attracted little attention, until its inclusion by Graham Greene in his 'books of the year' in The Sunday Times. On the strength of Greene's recommendation, the journalist John Gordon of The Sunday Express bought and read the book, and published a strongly critical article which described Lolita as 'without doubt [...] the filthiest book that I have ever read' (quoted in Juliar Vladimir Nabokov p.692). This article triggered an exchange with Greene in the correspondence columns of the London newspapers and journals which brought the book to the attention of a wide audience, although the means did not, unsurprisingly, delight Nabokov. As he wrote to the American critic Edmund Wilson, 'A foul little flurry in the London papers concerning LOLITA has been demurely alluded to by Harvey Breit in his column. When you do read LOLITA, please mark that it is a highly moral affair [...] In the same issue of the Book Review there is a nice advertisement of Books on Sex, with ''patients telling their case histories in their own words.'' I am extremely irritated by the turn my nymphet's destiny is taking, but although I foreglimpsed the situation, I have no inkling how to act, nor do I know even what kind of assistance or defence I can expect in our times when crusades are definitely vieux jeu' (Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya, p.331).
In 1956 the French Ministère de l'Intérieur banned Lolita at the request of the British Home Office, prompting protests from intellectual circles. The ban was lifted by a French court in 1958, only to be re-instated six months later, to remain in force until September 1959. Ironically, the succès de scandale generated by the attempts to censor Lolita ensured large sales for the work, the proceeds of which permitted Nabokov to resign from his acadaemic duties, and give his time fully to writing. Juliar Vladimir Nabokov A28.1.1, issue b (with the printed price of 'Francs : 900' neatly scored through on the lower wrapper of volume I). (2)
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