A.Bouazza: "The cover belongs to a Penguin paperback: Penguin Books Ltd (7
April 2011). A cursory glance at Dieter Zimmer’s invaluable site
(http://www.d-e-zimmer.de/CoveringLolita/LoCov.html) does not seem to
include this one.
I believe it is appropriate at this moment to draw
attention to Penguin Classics new hardback series (September 2012) of VN’s books
in 22 volumes."
Jansy Mello: Thanks for
the precise information about the "Lolita" cover!
D.Zimmer's site, if I'm not mistaken, doesn't
intend to record all the VN covers.I deduce this from the fact that, when I
sent him the four available Brazilian ones of "Lolita," he only
chose one to reproduce in it. .
Your additional information about the
new hardback edition of Penguin Classics solves a small mystery. For
the first time, since I started to buy Nabokov novels in English, I
recently found piles of soft-cover "Bend Sinister" being displayed on
a regular book-store's shelf (I usually had to order Nabokov from abroad)
and some copies of "The Eye".