Dead Souls **VERY RARE FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET** **PART OF THE BOSTON BOOK CO. MODERN LIBRARY COLLECTION**

VERY RARE FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET **PART OF THE BOSTON BOOK CO. MODERN LIBRARY COLLECTION** Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol. New York: The Modern Library, 1936 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION STATED. This is a very attractive FIRST PRINTING of a rare Modern Library title in a great pictorial dust jacket. Bound in red brick balloon cloth (spine #7) with Kent end papers. The book is NEAR FINE. Solid binding, bright gilt on cover and spine, bright matching topstain. Contents are clean with no owner's signature or other writing in text. GORGEOUS! The beautiful pictorial dust jacket is NEAR FINE slight chipping at extremities and age darkening otherwise clean and bright! 95 cent price present on inside flap. The back of the dust jacket mentions 242 titles matching a 1936 printing and FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. VERY HARD TO FIND FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION IN DUST JACKET. This book is part of the Modern Library collection from the Boston Book Company which comprised 1,917 modern library volumes and was used to create A Descriptive Bibliography of The Modern Library: 1917 - 1970 by George M. Andes in 1989. If you see anything else you like in my store let me know before you order as I always offer discounts to repeat customers! **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**.…