Dead Souls or Tchitchikoff's Journeys [2x vol. set]
Author:
GOGOL, NIKOLAI VASILIEVITCH & HAPGOOD, ISABEL F. (transl.)
Title:
Dead Souls or Tchitchikoff's Journeys [2x vol. set]
Publisher:
John and Robert Maxwell 1887
Description:
FIRST COMPLETE EDITION IN ENGLISH, tidy ex-library binding (from the General Assembly of New Zealand ie. Parliament), half bound octavo maroon boards with gilt emblem of NZ General Assembly Library, leather spines with raised bands and gilt lettering & decoration, marbelled eps. & edges, illus. frontis to vol. 2 only, vol. 1: 364pp / vol. 2: 285pp (with table of Russian civil service/military ranks at end), VG (moderate to heavy scuffing and rubbing to leather, light tanning and occasional light foxing within, usual stamps and markings - a tidy set of a key work)
Keywords:
russian literature first edition in translation nikolai gogol russia dead souls serfdom satire satirical
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