8vo. Half-title. Original black cloth-backed boards, top edge stained red (one corner bumped, very slightly leaned); in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (a few tiny chips and tears, some soiling to extremities, tiny pencil note on rear flap
 
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, IN THE FIRST ISSUE dust jacket without "Complete Unexpurgated Edition" on front panel.  Nabokov's controversial novel was initially rejected by American publishers, and was first published by the avant-garde Olympia Press in Paris in a two-volume edition in 1955. Lolita is ranked fourth on the Modern Library's list of 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century.