Vintage 'Lolita' Covers from Around the World

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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