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Lolita: A Screenplay
by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/VG- (Very Good Minus)
- ISBN 10
- 0070457328
- ISBN 13
- 9780070457324
- Seller
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Buffalo, New York, United States
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About This Item
McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/VG- (Very Good Minus). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Black cloth with trace wear and lightly bumped spine ends; slight sunning along lower edge. Jacket in new archival mylar sleeve has light edgewear, toning, rubbing and soil; a few small tears <1"; flaps not clipped. Binding sound, text clean. No prev owner names, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. 213 pp. This is the purely Nabokov version of the screenplay and not the same version which was produced as the motion picture Lolita, distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.
Synopsis
Lolita (1955) is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first written in English and published in 1955 in Paris, later translated by the author into Russian and published in 1958 in New York. The book is internationally famous for its innovative style and infamous for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, middle-aged Humbert Humbert, becomes obsessed and sexually involved with a 12-year-old girl named Dolores Haze.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Albion Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003174
- Title
- Lolita: A Screenplay
- Author
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- VG- (Very Good Minus)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0070457328
- ISBN 13
- 9780070457324
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Book Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1974
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- X weight
- 2 lb
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About the Seller
Albion Books
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Buffalo, New York
About Albion Books
Albion Books deals in fine used, out of print and rare books on a wide variety of topics. Specialties include Buffalo/New York history, science, religion, occult, and foreign language. The proprietor has been in the antiquarian book business since 2006.
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