NABOKOV, Vladimir. Nikolai Gogol
NABOKOV, Vladimir. Nikolai Gogol. London: Poetry Editions London. 1947. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher's cream cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. A terrific copy, the cloth a trifle marked to extremities, the gilt just a trifle dulled, the binding tight and square. The contents fine, just a trifle toned from paper quality. The dust jacket unclipped with publisher's price sticker of 8/6 net over original, very mildly marked but fine. Scarce as such.
Nabokov's second published work in English after his novel, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941). New Directions first published the work in 1944. In it, Nabokov expounds the theory that Gogol was not, in fact, a Russian Dickens, but a writer interested in 'the fantasies of his quiet imagination'. He also considers Gogol's influence on his own writing.
NABOKOV, Vladimir. Nikolai Gogol. London: Poetry Editions London. 1947. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher's cream cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. A terrific copy, the cloth a trifle marked to extremities, the gilt just a trifle dulled, the binding tight and square. The contents fine, just a trifle toned from paper quality. The dust jacket unclipped with publisher's price sticker of 8/6 net over original, very mildly marked but fine. Scarce as such.
Nabokov's second published work in English after his novel, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941). New Directions first published the work in 1944. In it, Nabokov expounds the theory that Gogol was not, in fact, a Russian Dickens, but a writer interested in 'the fantasies of his quiet imagination'. He also considers Gogol's influence on his own writing.
NABOKOV, Vladimir. Nikolai Gogol. London: Poetry Editions London. 1947. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher's cream cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. A terrific copy, the cloth a trifle marked to extremities, the gilt just a trifle dulled, the binding tight and square. The contents fine, just a trifle toned from paper quality. The dust jacket unclipped with publisher's price sticker of 8/6 net over original, very mildly marked but fine. Scarce as such.
Nabokov's second published work in English after his novel, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941). New Directions first published the work in 1944. In it, Nabokov expounds the theory that Gogol was not, in fact, a Russian Dickens, but a writer interested in 'the fantasies of his quiet imagination'. He also considers Gogol's influence on his own writing.