New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944. Hardcover. Fine in glassines and a Fine clamshell box. Uncommon in this condition. Lucille Corcos. Two octavo volumes (5-3/4" x 8-3/4") bound in gilt-stamped half red buckram and blue boards decorated in gilt. Translated from the Russian by Bernard Guilbert Guerney; introduction by Avrahm Yarmolinsky. Color drawings by Lucille Corcos printed in process offset. One of the smaller limitations of the press. Copy #258 of 1200 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

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Bookseller: Charles Agvent (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 021582
Title: [DEAD SOULS] CHICHIKOV'S JOURNEYS; OR, HOME LIFE IN OLD RUSSIA
Author: GOGOL, Nikolai
Illustrator: Lucille Corcos
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine in glassines and a Fine clamshell box. Uncommon in this condition
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Limited Editions Club
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1944
Keywords: Signed, Illustrated Books, Limited Editions Club, 19th Century Russian Literature, Color Plates, LEC
Bookseller catalogs: 19th Century Russian Literature;

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Charles Agvent

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Charles Agvent

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We carry a diverse and select stock with major specialties including Modern and 19th Century Literary First Editions, Signed Books & Autographs (especially Presidential and Literary), and Limited Editions Club books. We have been in business since 1987 and are proud to be members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB).

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Colophon: The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
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Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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