1975 The Overcoat
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Description
Illustrated, Limited Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce, Signed, With Slipcase
A scarce, limited edition work.
Number 49 of 160 copies of this work produced, signed by artist Pietro Annigoni to the colophon.
With parallel text in English and in Russian Cyrillic. Utilising the English translation of Constance Garnett.
Illustrated with six etchings by Annigoni. Collated, complete.
Housed in the original cloth slip case.
This short story, narrating the life of an impoverished government clerk in St. Petersburg, has been praised as 'the greatest Russian short story ever written' by Vladimir Nabokov.
Condition
In the publisher's original vellum backed paper covered boards, with cloth covered slip case. Externally, fine. Slip case in exceptional condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright.
Fine
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