Lot 25: GOGOL, Nikolai Vasil'evich (1809-1852). Pokhozhdeniia Chichikhova, ili Mertvyia Dushi . T. 1. [The Adventures of Chichikhov, or Dead Souls. Vol. 1.] Moscow: at the University Press, 1842.

GOGOL, Nikolai Vasil'evich (1809-1852). Pokhozhdeniia Chichikhova, ili Mertvyia Dushi. T. 1. [The Adventures of Chichikhov, or Dead Souls. Vol. 1.] Moscow: at the University Press, 1842.

8° (230 x 150mm). (Mostly marginal dampstains reaching into the text of some gatherings, some light spotting and light soiling.) Contemporary Russian green half roan (spine foot chipped, spine-head compartment and front board nearly detached, extremities rubbed, corners worn).

FIRST EDITION OF GOGOL'S BEST KNOWN WORK. 'One of the great novels of nineteenth-century Russia' (Fekula). This first part of Gogol's famous satire was printed in an edition of 2400 copies with money borrowed from Pogodin. A second part was published by his heirs in 1855 from draft notes found after the author's death. Fekula 4716; Kilgour 345; Smirnov-Sokol'ski, Moia biblioteka, 610.

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