Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov [1955 HARDCOVER BOOK CLUB EDITION]

FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION [1955] G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS

RARE First U.S. Book Club Edition.  Hardcover with Dust Jacket in Very Good condition.  Dust Jacket is in tact w. visible tanning & a few minor tears to edges along corners & spines.   Book itself is excellent.  Cloth cover is clean.  Gold lettering on spine is clear and unfaded.  Pages are clean, bright and unmarked.  Small hint of tanning to cloth at top of spine. 

Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust.