Item #140943837 Tchitchikoff's Journeys; or, Dead Souls. Nikolai Gogol, Isabel Hapgood.
Tchitchikoff's Journeys; or, Dead Souls
Tchitchikoff's Journeys; or, Dead Souls
Tchitchikoff's Journeys; or, Dead Souls

Tchitchikoff's Journeys; or, Dead Souls

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1886.

First American edition, scarce single-volume issue comprising of two separately paginated volumes bound into one. (First complete translation into English as well, following the British partial translation of 1854. This issue not mentioned in Line. Apparently same sheets as two volume issue but with different font spine lettering, plain endpapers, and no ads; priority undetermined.) 364; 282, (3, Table of Russian Ranks) pp. + 4pp. ads. Burgundy pebbled cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with fading to spine and rubbing at edges heavier at spine ends. Bookplate to front pastedown and owner name penciled to front free endpaper, pages toned.

A lovely copy of the 19th Century Russian literary masterpiece. Ends with the spurious conclusion of Zakharchenko. Item #140943837

Price: $3,800.00