"Dead Souls" by Nicholai Gogol, Translated from the Russian, and with a Foreword, by Bernard Guilbert Guerney, "Thoroughly Revised, with Additional Material, Constituting the Present Translation the Nearest Approach to a Comprehensive Version in Any Language," published by the Modern Library, New York, stated First Modern Library Edition, 1965.

Dust jacket with an original unclipped price on the front flap [a little stressed at the edges]; hard boards, original publisher’s maroon cloth with embossed frame and "ml" on the front board, metallic silvery lettering on spine; 4.3/4" x 7.1/2"; xxvi + 549 pages, very good near fine condition.

The volume also includes Foreword, "To the Reader from the Author," Glossary of Name Meanings, Addenda and Variants, Translator's Notes.

Guerney's translation ( 1st published by the New York Readers' Club in 1942, revised 1948, is considered to be the best English version by Vladimir Nabokov, with the qualification that no later translations had yet been released at the time of his study in 1944.

"...But pity and tolerance are rare in satire, even in clash with it, producing in the result a deep sense of tragic humour. It is this that makes of Dead Souls a unique work, peculiarly Gogolian, peculiarly Russian, and distinct from its author's Spanish and English masters." [excerpt from a review]

Bernard Guilbert Guerney (1894-1979) was a translator of Russian authors and the editor of many anthologies. Guerney was the proprietor of the Blue Fawn, a book store he operated near Greenwich and Seventh Avenues, and at various other locations in Manhattan since the early 1920's. As a translator, Guerney was best known for his “Treasury of Russian Literature,” published by Vanguard Press in 1943. It included two full‐length novels and other works by Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bunin and Kuprin. He also translated Merezhkovsky's "The Romance of Leonardo de Vinci" and "The Anthology of Russian Literature," published by the Modern Library in 1960.

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