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The Overcoat & The Government Inspector, 1975 - Signed
The Overcoat & The Government Inspector, 1975 - Signed
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  • Book Title: The Overcoat & The Government Inspector
  • Author: Nikolai Gogal. Translated by Constance Garnett. Introduction by Alfred Kazin
  • Illustrator: Saul Field
  • Publisher: Limited Editions Club, Westport
  • Limited Edition: Copy 1301 of 2000, signed by Field
  • Date: 1976
  • Hardcover, 224 pages, 8vo
  • Illustrated with color engravings hand-pulled by the artist, Saul Field
  • With LEC Montly Letter laid-in. Two-toned green and brown buckram stamped in aluminum. Comes in slipcase with original glassine overwrapper

    Description: "The Overcoat" is a short story that narrates the life and death of titular councillor Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, an impoverished government clerk and copyist in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. "The Government Inspector" is a satirical play. The play is a comedy of errors, satirizing human greed, stupidity, and the extensive political corruption of Imperial Russia.

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