Contes à Ninon

by Émile Zola

$5,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition · Signed

First edition of the author’s first book. 4 , 320 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full blue morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., by Taffin, with the original yellow printed wrappers bound in. Very good head rubbed, slight toning to a few leaves . With loosely inserted calling card of the author. Carteret II, p. 488. Item #374820 Zola’s first book, INSCRIBED on the half-title to the distinguished literary critic

• Binding: Leather

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