Two handsome Heron editions together. Both handsomely bound in (faux?) red leather with gilt décor to front and spine. Bound-in silk marker ribbon. Near Fine condition with light bumping.

DEAD SOULS - by Nikolay Gogol 1967, 1st edition in this form

Hardcover, 20.5x12x5cms, 336pp.

With an Introduction by Nikolay Andreyev.

From the Heron "The Greatest Masterpieces of Russian Literature" series.

Dead Souls was written by the Ukrainian Gogol in the 1830s and was a satire of political corruption in the Russian Empire which led eventually to the author's exile.

THROUGH RUSSIA: A BOOK OF STORIES - by Maxim Gorky

Hardcover, 20.5x12x5cms, 276pp.

Translated from the Russian by C.J. Hogarth, with an Introduction by A.B. McMillin.

From the Heron "The Greatest Masterpieces of Russian Literature" series.

This collection includes: The Birth of a Man; The Icebreaker; Gubin; Nilushka; The Cemetery; On a River Steamer; A Woman; In a Mountain Defile; Kalinin; The Dead Man.

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