Earlier today our friends at Coudal Partners directed us to Covering Lolita, an online collection of cover design for the classic novel that spans 33 countries and over 50 years. Click through to view some of our favorite retro takes on Lolita (all of which are notably more fun to look at than the book’s rather austere first edition), and listen to Nabakov weigh in on the look of a few of the foreign editions himself in this old public TV interview.
1957 – Sweden.
1958 – The Hague
1959 – Italy
1959 – Turkey
1961 – Greece
1962- USA
1963- Denmark
1963 – France
1964 – Germany
1964 – Turkey
1965 – Sweden
1966 – USA
1970 – Italy
1970s – The Netherlands
1973 – UK
1974 – Turkey
1974 – Germany
1978 – The Netherlands