Dead Souls

Chichikov's Journeys; or, Home Life in Old Russia

by Nikolai Gogol

Translated by Bernard Guilbert Guerney

Illustrated by Lucille Corcos

Limited Editions Club edition

of the classic Russian novel

signed by the illustrator

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1944. xvi, [iv], 308; [vi], 309-484, [2] pp. Publisher's blue boards with red buckram backstrips, stamped in gilt, all edges stained red; housed in original blue cloth clamshell box lettered in gilt. Complete in two volumes. Copy 1182 of 1200 copies signed by artist Lucille Corcos at rear colophon of second volume. Former owner's bookplates on paste downs, else Fine in original glassine wraps, lightly worn and folded, housed in Very Good box, lettering dulled, small tear along foot joint, rubbing. The classic Russian novel, illustrated by American "modern primitivist" painter Lucille Corcos.