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GOGOL, Nikolai Vasil’evich (1809-1852). Vybrannyia Mesta iz Perepiski Druz'iami. [Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends]. St Petersburg: Department of Foreign Trade, 1847.
First edition of this anthology of Gogol’s correspondence, the last of his books to be published during his lifetime. A rare book, with RBH/ABPC recording a single copy sold at auction. Kilgour 347; Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia Bibliotheka 614.
Octavo (220 x 143mm). Half-title (occasional light browning and staining). 19th-century half leather, corners and spine tooled in gilt and blind, gilt-lettered spine, cloth sides, bookmark (some rubbing at extremities). Provenance: Jurij Gel'perin (bookplate).
First edition of this anthology of Gogol’s correspondence, the last of his books to be published during his lifetime. A rare book, with RBH/ABPC recording a single copy sold at auction. Kilgour 347; Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia Bibliotheka 614.
Octavo (220 x 143mm). Half-title (occasional light browning and staining). 19th-century half leather, corners and spine tooled in gilt and blind, gilt-lettered spine, cloth sides, bookmark (some rubbing at extremities). Provenance: Jurij Gel'perin (bookplate).
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