Description
FIRST EDITION, copy of the current edition after 50 on Hollande, of this collection of 6 short stories first published in the Messenger of Europe between 1875 and 1880. It was through Ivan Tourgueniev that Zola began collaborating with this Russian periodical.
AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURE OF THE AUTHOR, remnant of a cut-out mailing.
Paris,Carpenter,1883.In-12, Bound,128 x 188 mm,[2] ff. - 340 pp. - 1] f. e.
Bound in contemporary brown morocco, spine ribbed and decorated with gold fillets, gilt title, gilt fillet on covers, gilt heads. Cover preserved without spine. Bookmark. Spine unstained. Some brown spots.