To include:

Vladimir Nabokoff. LAUGHTER IN THE DARK. Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1938. Stated first edition (first American edition). Hardcover in green cloth boards (possibly indicating first issue, Juliar A14.2). 8vo; 292 pp. Copyright page states "A different version of this novel has been published in England under the title Camera Obscura."

Vladimir Nabokov. LOLITA. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1959. First UK edition. Hardcover in black cloth boards with silver lettering on spine, in jacket. 8vo; 319 pp.

5 1/4 x 8 3/8 in.; 5 3/8 x 8 in.

Private Collection, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

First title with scuffing and toning to boards, edgewear, spine lightly cocked and rubbed; name and small bookstore sticker on paste-down endpapers, light foxing, toning (esp. heavy on free endpapers), otherwise clean interior; missing dust jacket. Second title with boards with moderate edgewear; interior foxing especially at fore-edge and endpapers; sturdy jacket, clipped, with light wear on spine, small tears, interior foxing, small loss/chips at corners.