THE INSPECTOR-GENERAL (OR "REVIZOR.") A RUSSIAN COMEDY ... Translated from the Original, with Introduction and Notes, by Arthur A. Sykes
by Gogol, Nikolai V
Price: $100.00
- Bookseller: L. W. Currey, Inc.
- Seller Inventory #: 128950
- Format: Original decorated maroon cloth stamped in gold, black coated endpapers.
- Book condition: Corners bumped, wear and small chip to upper spine end, closed tear in front free endpaper, still a very good copy. (#128950)
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: London: Walter Scott Ltd.,
- Date published: 1892
Book Description
London: Walter Scott Ltd.,. 1892. original decorated maroon cloth stamped in gold, black coated endpapers.. Corners bumped, wear and small chip to upper spine end, closed tear. in front free endpaper, still a very good copy. (#128950). First printing of this translation. The second translation into English of "Revizor" (1836). The first English- language edition was published in Calcutta in 1890 as THE INSPECTOR (translated by T. Hart-Davies) and is for all practical purposes unobtainable. This is the source of the classic Danny Kaye movie (1949). Line, Gogol 7. Cornwell 329.
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