Item #33740 NIKOLAI GOGOL. Inscribed to the Thompsons [Lisbeth and Bertram were very close friends of the Nabokov's for over 40 years.]. Vladimir Nabokov.
NIKOLAI GOGOL. Inscribed to the Thompsons [Lisbeth and Bertram were very close friends of the Nabokov's for over 40 years.]
NIKOLAI GOGOL. Inscribed to the Thompsons [Lisbeth and Bertram were very close friends of the Nabokov's for over 40 years.]

NIKOLAI GOGOL. Inscribed to the Thompsons [Lisbeth and Bertram were very close friends of the Nabokov's for over 40 years.].

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions Books, 1944.

First Edition. Signed by Author. First edition, First State with five titles to advertisement page and four titles to rear flap of the Alvin Lustig designed dust wrapper which is also first state with the $1.50 price unclipped. 12mo., [i] + [vi] + 1-174. A very good copy, the spine ev er so slightly darkened with a couple of very small stains at the heel, the dust wrapper a very good & bright example with a narrow 3/16ths bit of loss at the crown. An outstanding copy of Nabokov's extensive & very important early essay of his countryman, as this copy is inscribed by the master & embellished with one of his famous butterfly sketches to his dear friends of over 40 years, the Thompsons:
"To Lisbeth and Bertrand with the author's love / Cambridge, Mass / Sept. 1944".
The book was published by New Directions, August 15th, 1944 making this a very early inscription. Genuine Nabokov presentations are uncommon especially those of a personal & generous nature. Julian A22.1 Nabokov's distinguished contribution [the fifth] to the Makers Of Modern Literature Series By New Directions. Preceded by works on: Joyce, Woolf, Forster & Lorca.

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