GOGOL, Nikolai Vasil’evich (1809-1852). Mirgorod…Chast’ vtoraja. [Mirgorod…Second Part]. [Vol. 2]. St Petersburg: [by Delvig and Somov] at the Press of the Department of Foreign Trade, 1835. The rare first edition of ‘Viy’ , in vol. 2 of a two-volume collection—a story of ‘real genius’ with supernatural, comic, tragic and horrific themes (Peace). Presented as a continuation of the very successful Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka (1831-1832), Mirgorod included four stories in two volumes. ‘Viy’ appeared here for the first time; ‘The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich’ had been published in the journal Novosel’e in 1834, after revisions imposed by censors. Rare: RBH records only two copies of both parts having been offered at auction. Kilgour 341; Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka, 607. Peace, The Enigma of Gogol , p. 30. Octavo (204 x 135mm). With the half-titles (some uniform browning, tiny wormtrack at lower margin of six leaves, two minor marginal tears, some thumbing, light staining to final leaves, one leaf and half-title strengthened at gutter, ink doodles to first half-title). 20th-century half calf, marbled boards, title to spine. Provenance: ‘A. Gololobova read [this] on the night of April 15, 1881. At 3am’ (contemporary inscription to first half-title) - unidentified inscription to third half-title.
GOGOL, Nikolai Vasil’evich (1809-1852). Mirgorod…Chast’ vtoraja. [Mirgorod…Second Part]. [Vol. 2]. St Petersburg: [by Delvig and Somov] at the Press of the Department of Foreign Trade, 1835. The rare first edition of ‘Viy’ , in vol. 2 of a two-volume collection—a story of ‘real genius’ with supernatural, comic, tragic and horrific themes (Peace). Presented as a continuation of the very successful Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka (1831-1832), Mirgorod included four stories in two volumes. ‘Viy’ appeared here for the first time; ‘The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich’ had been published in the journal Novosel’e in 1834, after revisions imposed by censors. Rare: RBH records only two copies of both parts having been offered at auction. Kilgour 341; Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka, 607. Peace, The Enigma of Gogol , p. 30. Octavo (204 x 135mm). With the half-titles (some uniform browning, tiny wormtrack at lower margin of six leaves, two minor marginal tears, some thumbing, light staining to final leaves, one leaf and half-title strengthened at gutter, ink doodles to first half-title). 20th-century half calf, marbled boards, title to spine. Provenance: ‘A. Gololobova read [this] on the night of April 15, 1881. At 3am’ (contemporary inscription to first half-title) - unidentified inscription to third half-title.
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