GOGOL, N.V. (1809–1852) CONVOLUTE, 6 editions. 1886–1891

Kolyaska ['The Carriage']. Moscow: Tip. E. Lissnera i Yu. Romana, 1890. — 31 pp.: ill.; Vecher nakanune Ivana Kupala ['The Eve of Ivan Kupala']. Moscow, 1887. — 32 pp.: ill.; Viy ['Viy']. Moscow, 1887. — 63 pp.: ill.; Mayskaya noch’, ili Utoplennitsa ['May Night, or the Drowned Maiden']. Moscow, 1891. — 48 pp.: ill.; Sorochinskaya yarmarka ['The Sorochintsy Fair']. Moscow, 1887. — 48 pp.: ill.; Nos ['The Nose']. Moscow, 1886. — 40 pp.: ill.; 17 × 13 cm. Contemporary composite binding. Good condition. Minor wear, foxing, stain along the lower part of the spine affecting the second half of the text block. All pamphlets in this convolute were issued in the series 'Narodnoe izdanie' of the bookshop of V. Dumnov, under the imprint 'Nasledniki brat'ev Salaevykh'. Vladimir Vasilievich Dumnov (1854–1926) was a publisher and bookseller who, from 1885, headed the firm Nasledniki brat'ev Salaevykh in Moscow (having married a niece of F. Salaev). Under his direction the firm became widely known for publishing school and gymnasium textbooks and educational materials, as well as works of fiction (including Gogol). In 1893 A.F. Marx purchased from Dumnov, for the then unprecedented sum of 150,000 roubles, the exclusive rights to publish Gogol’s works.