Gogol, Nikolai; Lucille Corcos (Illustrations)

Chichikov's Journeys; or, Home Life in Old Russia [Dead Souls] (2 volumes)

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1944. Limited Editions Club edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 308; 484pp. 1/4 red cloth with bluish-gray paper over boards. Elaborate gilt-stamped designs on the front and rear boards. Publisher's red text block edges. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown, with the name crossed out. In the publisher's glassine wrappers, with minor chipping to the edges. Housed in the portfolio box, in very good condition, with light shelfwear, and subtle sunning to the spine panel. Limited Editions Club monthly letter tucked in. Very Good + / Very Good. Item #71264

Translated from the Russian by Bernard Guilbert Guerney. Introduction by Avrahm Yarmolinsky. Illustrations in color by Lucille Corcos.

Number 86 in an edition limited to 1200 copies. Signed by the illustrator on the limitation page at the rear of volume 2.

Price: $100.00