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1892mon0003328080London: Chatto & Windus 1892T. hardcover. Good. . Light foxing on pages but it doesnt affect reading quality. Covers inner hinge is slightly torn. London: Chatto & Windus hardcover
18872602020002Vizetelly & Co. London 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First English edition of La Conquete de Plassans. Bound in publisher's green pictorial cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Several pages detached including frontis. viii 356 pages. Catalogue at rear for Sept. 1886 1st issue. 8 engravings. Vizetelly & Co., London hardcover
1879012020Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson 1879 First Edition in English. Translation by John Stirling copyright by T. B. Peterson 1879. Antique ex-library with hand-numbered and hand-dated June 9th 1880 bookplate from one of the USA's oldest institutions. 12mo. Green silk with decoration in blind. Gilt titles to front board and spine. 378 pp. plus 16 pp. publisher's catalogue including an engraving. Boards skewed fraying top of spine hinges cracked old library marks. Good. Scarce. T. B. Peterson hardcover
1892ZOLA�MIL008456Heinemann London. 1892. First U.K. edition. Octavo. pp viii 177. 8 pages publisher's catalogue dated June 1892 at rear. Pictorial cloth. Includes an essay on Zola by Edmund Gosse.Edges and endpapers a bit spotted. Tail of spine slightly bumped. Covers slightly rubbed at the edges. Very good. Heinemann, London. hardcover
18905591Undated edition circa 1890. Half leather with marbled boards and gilt titles and decoration to spine gilt rubbed to top half of spine. Minimal handling / shelf wear to outer surfaces. Internally clean though pages age tanned. This edition translated by Mary Neal Sherwood.<br /> Peterson Brothers hardcover
18841533<p>Light brown cloth with paper label which is chipped and scratched on spine. Boards pushed in at bottom corner. Rubbing to boards. Some creasing to spine. Front hinge cracked. Frontispiece detached and laid in. Translated from the 97th French edition. Illustrated with sixteen page engravings from designs by Bellenger Clairin Amdre Gill Leloir Rose and Vierge. Pages browned. Some brown spots to front illustrations. Previous owner's name label affixed to front pastedown. Decorative endpapers green floral pattern. Half title page has a tear and hole near top and hole near bottom. 16 pages of ads dated July 1884 at rear.</p> Vizetelly & Co. hardcover
188547398London: Vizetelly & Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1885. Hardcover. Original gilt-titled pictorial cloth patterned endpages. Spine has been repaired cloth is soiled corners bumped. Scattered foxing heaviest at endpages/edges. All plates present. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 294 pages . Vizetelly & Company hardcover
189547608London: Heinemann. Good with no dust jacket. 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-titled cloth. Points bumped rubbing. Hinges starting spine breaks. Pages toned PO name/info. Minimal foxing. Tissued frontis. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; vi ii 34416ads pages . Heinemann hardcover
189847619NY: Geo. H. Richmond and Son. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Original cloth. Spine has been reinforced/repaired; few minor stains to cloth. PO name dated 1898; minor foxing. Frontis. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 344 pages . Geo. H. Richmond and Son hardcover
1874Flo16<p><strong>ZOLA FLAUBERT Gustave 1821-1880</strong></p><p>Autograph letter signed " Gve Flaubert " to Émile Zola<br />N.p.n.d Croisset 26th May 1874 1 p. in-8° on blue laid paper<br />Tear on fold old trace of previous mounting</p><p>And</p><p>Autograph letter signed " Gve Flaubert " to Émile Zola<br />Croisset près Rouen 3rd June Croisset 3 juin 1874 4 pp. in-8° on laid paper<br />Three words underlines by Alexandrine Zola old trace of previous mounting</p><p><strong>Set of two letters on <em>La Conquête de Plassans</em> forming undoubtedly Flaubert's most detailed critique of a novel by his friend Zola</strong></p><p>First letter</p><p><em>" Mardi soir.</em><br /><strong><em>C'est très fort ! mon brave homme ! Je l'ai lu tout d'une haleine & j'en suis étourdi.</em></strong><br /><em>Dans 8 jours je le relirai lentement ! p</em>ou<em>r voir si j'ai raison d'être enthousiasmé.</em><br /><em>J'ai reçu un g</em>ran<em>d choc comme d'une machine électrique.</em><br /><em>Vous ne serez pas poursuivi. <strong>La poésie vous sauvera</strong>. Mais je comprends les terreurs du jeune Charpentier.</em><br /><em>à dimanche une longue bavette sur votre truculent bouquin.</em><br /><em>tout à vous</em><br /><em>Gve Flaubert</em><br /><em>Je trouve Barbané très médiocre de fond & de forme" quoi qu'on dise ". Celui-là par exemple je ne le relirai pas. Je le sais. "</em></p><p>Second letter</p><p><em>" <strong>Je l'ai lue " La Conquête de Plassans " lue tout d'une haleine comme on avale un bon verre de vin puis ruminée – & maintenant mon cher ami j'en peux causer sciemment.</strong></em><br /><strong><em>J'avais peur après Le Ventre de Paris que vous ne vous enfonciez dans le système dans le parti pris. Mais non ! Allons vous êtes un gaillard ! et votre dernier livre est un crâne bouquin !</em></strong><br /><em>Peut-être manque-t-il d'un milieu proéminent d'une scène centrale chose qui n'arrive jamais dans la nature et peut-être aussi y a-t-il un peu trop de dialogues dans les parties accessoires ! Voilà en vous épluchant bien tout ce que je trouve à dire – de défavorable – mais quelle observation ! quelle profondeur ! quelle poigne !</em><br /><em>Ce qui me frappe c'est d'abord le ton général du livre la cette férocité de passion sous une surface bonhomme. Cela est fort mon vieux très fort râblé & bien portant.</em><br /><strong><em>Quel joli bourgeois que ce Mouret avec sa curiosité son avarice sa résignation p. 183-184 et son aplatissement ! L'abbé Faujas est sinistre et grand – un vrai directeur ! Comme il manie bien la femme comme il s'empare bien habilement de celle-là en la prenant par la charité puis en la brutalisant !</em></strong><br /><em>Quant à elle Marthe je ne saurais vous dire combien elle me semble réussie & l'art que je trouve au développement de son caractère ou plutôt de sa maladie. J'ai parti surtout remarqué les pages 194 215 et 227 261 264 267. – <strong>Son état hystérique son aveu final p. 350 & sq. est une merveille. Comme le ménage se dissout bien ! Comme elle se détache de tout et en même temps son moi son fond. Il y a là une science de dissolution profonde.</strong></em><br /><em>J'oublie de vous parler des Trouche – qui sont adorables comme canailles – & de l'abbé Bourette</em> Bourrette<em> exquis avec sa peur & sa sensibilité.<br />La vie de province les jardins qui se regardent le ménage Paloque les Rastoil & les parties de raquette parfait parfait.<br /><strong>Vous avez des détails excellents des phrases des mots qui sont des bonheurs</strong> page 17 " … la tonsure comme une cicatrice " 181 " j'aimerais mieux qu'il allât voir les femmes " 89 " Mouret avait bourré le poêle " etc.<br />Et le Cercle de la jeunesse ! Voilà une invention vraie.<br />J'ai noté en marge bien d'autres endroits.<br />– Les détails physiques qu'Olympe donne sur son frère – la fraise<br />– La mère de l'abbé prête à devenir sa maquerelle 152 – et son coffre ! 338.<br />– <strong>L'âpreté du prêtre qui repousse les mouchoirs de sa pauvre amante parce que cela sent " une odeur de femme "</strong>.<br />– " Au fond des sacristies le nom de Mr Delangre… " et toute la phrase qui est un bijou.<br /><strong>Mais ce qui écrase tout – ce qui couronne l'œuvre c'est la fin !</strong> Je ne connais rien de plus empoignant que ce dénouement. La visite de Marthe chez son oncle – le retour de Mouret & l'inspection qu'il fait de sa maison ! La peur vous prend comme à la lecture d'un conte fantastique & vous arrivez à cet effet-là par l'excès de la réalité par l'intensité du vrai ! Le lecteur sent que la tête lui tourne comme à Mouret lui-même.<br />L'insensibilité des bourgeois qui contemplent l'incendie assis sur des fauteuils est charmante. & vous finissez par un trait sublime : l'apparition de la soutane de l'abbé Serge au chevet de sa mère mourante comme une consolation ou comme un châtiment !<br />Une chicane cependant. Le lecteur qui n'a pas de mémoire ne sait pas quel instinct pousse à agir comme ils font Me Rougon et l'oncle Macquart. Deux paragraphes d'explications eussent été suffisants. N'importe ça y est et je vous remercie du plaisir que<br />vous m'avez fait.<br />Dormez sur vos deux oreilles c'est une œuvre<br /><strong>Mettez de côté p</strong></em>ou<strong><em>r moi toutes les bêtises qu'elle inspirera. Ce genre de documents m'intéresse.</em></strong><em><br />Je vous serre la main très fort & suis<br />vous n'en doutez pas<br />vôtre<br />Gve Flaubert "</em></p><p>The fourth volume of <em>Rougon-Maquart</em> <em>La Conquête de Plassans</em> was published in the spring of 1874 by Charpentier and tells the story of Father Faujas a Bonapartist priest ready to do anything to reconquer the city of Plassans fallen into the hands of the legitimists royalists. In this violent attack on the clergy Zola depicts a Church complicit in political power manipulative using the naive piety of the faithful especially women through practices where faith is in fact only a veil masking other ambitions.</p><p>Flaubert first emits a brief hot reaction after a first reading having left him "dizzy". He says he is "shocked" and rightly so because he will a week later give himself to a criticism this time without reservation going so far as to quote passages on the recently published novel of his friend Zola.<br />It should be noted that it is not without some apprehension that Flaubert undertakes the reading of this fourth volume of <em>Rougon-Macquart</em> having succeeded the much maligned <em>Ventre de Paris</em>. He does not hide it this last novel had displeased him because according to him being too deeply in the naturalist doctrine the "system the bias" through the small Parisian people.<br /><em>La Conquête de Plassans</em> offers a different romantic formula.<br />We also notice that Flaubert revels in the way the bourgeoisie is portrayed the same provincial bourgeoisie he himself had mocked in his previous works : <em>Madame Bovary</em> and <em>L'Éducation sentimentale</em>.<br />Finally emphasizing the Abbot's hold on the Mouret couple and more particularly on Marthe whose decline will sink into madness Flaubert appreciates with what scientific precision and coldness Zola describes the ravages of the imbalance that strikes the two characters.</p><p><u>Bibliography:</u><br />Gustave Flaubert <em>Correspondance</em> éd. Jean Bruneau Pléiade t. IV p. 801 first letter<br />Gustave Flaubert <em>Correspondance</em> éd. Jean Bruneau Pléiade t. IV pp. 805-806 second letter<br />Flaubert <em>Correspondance</em> éd. René Descharmes Le Centenaire t. III pp. 541-543 second letter</p><p><u>Provenance:</u><br />Émile Zola's personal collection<br />Then Alexandrine Zola by descent<br />Then famille Le Blond-Zola by descent</p>
1896015642Paris: Charpentier 1896. E.O. Un volume 145x19 cm di 4-751 pagine. In barbe lunghe. Edizione originale su papier de Hollande tirata in 300 esemplari numerati questo il n. 250. Legatura coeva in mezza pelle dorso a nervi con titolo dorato; taglio superiore dorato; cerniera fenduta. Conservata all'interno la brossura originale anch'essa in barbe qualche mancanza marginale. Nella serie Les Trois Villes. Charpentier unknown
1896002759New York & London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1896. This is a Very Good Plus set of the First American Edition. One of several "city" novels written by the great French naturalist. The translation is by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly. Vizetelly who often published the copyright editions of various continental authors had published the English edition in 1888; the title page stresses this as the "sole authorized edition." Two volumes. Maroon cloth binding ruled in gilt and with gilt lettering. Clean text; 434 pages and 478 pages with four pages of publisher adverts in the rear. Rubbing confined to the head and foot of the spine and tips; spines lightly faded. A very attractive set. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Macmillan & Co., Ltd. Hardcover
1896111111111857MacMillan and Co 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. MacMillan; New York 1896. Hardcover. Complete 2 Volume Set. A Very Good maroon cloth binding with gilt lettering on front board and spine binding intact some handling/scuff marks to boards crimping to spine edges bit of age toning to pages rubbing to board and spine edges mild discoloration to pastedowns and endpapers trace spine fade without Dust wrapper. A nice and clean set. 8vooctavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches 473pp. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scans are available for any item please inquire. MacMillan and Co hardcover
1896005435London: Chatto & Windus 1896. This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition in English. Translation from the French by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly who also provides a Preface. Rose-coloured decorative binding with a motif of crossed keys. C;lean text; viii 587 pages with a 32-page catalog dated March 1895 in the rear. Floral decorative endpapers.Textblock is nicely bright and clear with no foxing.The spine has faded to a tan colour but the gilt titling remains bright Hardly any rubbing to the tips but the top is dusty. A solid copy. First UK Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Chatto & Windus Hardcover
1896165971London: Chatto & Windus 1896. Good. New. Good minus. Soil bumps and rubs at edges and corners w. Fraying at corners and spine ends/ some yellowing to text. Chatto & Windus unknown
1896327745London: Chatto Windus Piccadilly 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. First English edition. Translated by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly. Owner's book plate "From the Books of Crosby Gaige" on front pastedown. Front hinge neatly repaired very good with moderate tears along the back hinge in the original patterned cloth pictorial covers with soiling to the boards and darkening to the spine without dustwrapper. Crosby Graige was a celebrated Broadway theatrical producer fine press publisher and book collector and author of numerous books on food wine and cocktails. Chatto, Windus, Piccadilly hardcover
1896037471Barcelona: Maucci 1896. No consta edición. Tapa dura. Good. 444 493 pp. 13 x 18 cm. Dos tomos encuadernados en holandesa moderna. Conservan portadas originales. Muy buen estado papel limpio. Traducción de Agustín de Carreau. Buen estado. Maucci hardcover
188720546Paris: Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes 1887. Fine. Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes Paris 1887 15.50 x 25 cm agrafé First edition. Plain paper cover. Rare. Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes unknown
189822226Paris: La Revue Blanche 1898. Fine. La Revue Blanche Paris 1er Mars 1898 17.50 x 26 cm broché First edition presented under double cream wrappers one of the rare copies on Holland paper from a very small print run whose number is not specified the only deluxe copies. Contributions by G. Kahn J. de Mitty J.P. Jacobsen on the plague in Bergamo tribute from the Revue Blanche to Emile Zola for the condemnation he faced in the verdict of February 23 1898 regarding the Dreyfus affair. Minor marginal worming without consequence to the covers of the double wrappers handsome copy. Rare. La Revue Blanche unknown
1887FLAnéZOL13Paris: G.Charpentier & Cie. 1887. 1887. 12mo. pp. 2 p.l. 138 1 leaf. An uncut copy in modern quarter cloth morocco spine label original printed wrs. bound in. First Edition. Vicaire VII 1223. F. Hardcover. Paris: G.Charpentier & Cie., 1887. Hardcover
189687375Paris : Librairie Borel 1896. 140x70mm. reliure plein chagrin rouge avec titre et auteur dors au dos. Couvertures conservs. Belle reliure. Bel exemplaire. 163 Librairie Borel unknown
188283518Paris: Charpentier & Cie 1882. Fine. Charpentier & Cie Paris 1882 11 x 17.50 cm broché First edition one of 250 numbered copies on Holland paper the only deluxe copies after a few rare copies on China paper. First cover skillfully restored printed library stamp with numbering on the half-title page. Copy as issued. Charpentier & Cie unknown
188286096Paris: Charpentier 1882. Fine. Charpentier Paris 1882 12.50 x 19 cm relié First edition one of 250 numbered copies on Holland paper the only deluxe copies after a few rare China paper copies. Half red morocco binding with corners spine with five raised bands set with blind fillets marbled paper boards combed paper endpapers and pastedowns bookplate pasted on one pastedown original wrappers preserved top edge gilt on deckled edges signed binding Pétrus Ruban. Fine bookplate engraved by Provost-Blondel and pasted on one pastedown. It depicts a helmet adorned with a feather a medallion and a phylactery bearing the motto ""Toujours en face"". It would have belonged to Victor Coué second lieutenant killed in action during World War I. Handsome copy nicely bound. Charpentier hardcover
189076466Editions C. Marpon et E. Flammarion 1890. Bonded Leather. Edition illustrée par Georges Bellenger et Kauffmann. <b>Livre en français</b>. Couverture rigide. Reliure demi-basane. 452 pages. 26 x 15 cm. Rousseurs. Petit manque en marge à 1 page. <i>ref. 76466</i> Editions C. Marpon et E. Flammarion hardcover
1882373076Paris : G. Charpentier et cie 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Worn copy bound in modern half leather over buckram boards with a gilt title to the spine. Some wear and sun toning to the spine band and extremities. Remains well preserved overall; bright clean and sharp-cornered. Provenance; from the library of Sir Charles Hall with the owner's bookplate and signature. Physical description; 495 pages. Subjects; Zola Émile 1840-1902. Fiction. Genre; Fiction. Paris : G. Charpentier et cie hardcover