Paris

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy, iconography.
Publisher's full red skyvertex binding, smooth spine, complete with its illustrated dust jacket.
Autograph inscription from Raoul Salan to Madame Lesage: "... avec mes hommages et l'espérance de mon fidèle souvenir." ["...with my respects and the hope of my faithful remembrance."]

First edition on ordinary paper.
Spine slightly sunned, otherwise a handsome copy.
Signed autograph inscription by Radovan Ivsic to his surrealist colleague and friend Georges Goldfayn: "... visible dans la brume de tout coeur..."


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First edition in French, of which there were no deluxe copies, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Two stains to lower right corner of front cover.
Signed and dated autograph inscription from Pablo Neruda to Dr. Pellerin.

Edition illustrated with 83 engravings after the originals by Charles Eisen, one of the numbered copies on tinted laid paper with deckled edges.
The work is also adorned with two frontispiece portraits and numerous head- and tailpieces by Paul Baudier after the original drawings by Charles Eisen illustrating the famous edition known as the "Fermiers généraux".
Our copy is exceptionally expanded with a duplicate suite on blue paper of the 83 engravings after the originals by Charles Eisen and the two frontispieces gathered in one volume.
Half red morocco bindings with corners, spines with four raised bands set with gilt dots and decorated with gilt compartments adorned...

Republished one year after the original.

Binding in half blue-grey percaline, spine decorated with a gilt fleuron in the centre and a double gilt filet at the bottom, brown shagreen title piece, discreet restorations on the joints, contemporary binding.

Handwritten presentation by Émile Zola to the publisher Ernest Flammarion.

Precious copy enriched with a handwritten presentation by the author set on one of his masterpieces.

Republished nine years after the original.

Binding in half blue-grey percaline, spine decorated with a gilt fleuron in the centre and a double gilt filet at the bottom, brown shagreen title piece, discreet restorations on the joints, contemporary binding.
Some minor foxing.

Handwritten presentation by Émile Zola to the publisher [Ernest] Flammarion.

Precious copy enriched with a handwritten presentation by the author set on one of his masterpieces.

First edition, one of 60 numbered copies on pur fil paper, deluxe copies after 15 on Hollande paper.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on alfa vellum, the only deluxe copies.
Fine copy.