Charpentier

First edition on ordinary paper, with only 6 deluxe copies printed on Holland paper.
Autograph inscription from Nicolette Hennique to Michel Corday.
Spine slightly sunned with light cracking, occasional light foxing.

First edition, one of 30 copies on Hollande, the only large paper copies.
Endpapers and title page slightly faded, otherwise a fine copy with good margins.
Rare.

New edition on ordinary paper.
Inscription from Gaston Chérau to Charles-Henri Hirsch.

New edition, this one being definitive.
Half sheep binding in caramel, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets and rules, shagreen title-label.
Light foxing to edges, otherwise a handsome copy.

Second edition.
Spine cracked with a tiny lack at head, foxing to boards, light spotting to interior.
Rare.

New edition.
Half bottle-green shagreen binding, spine slightly faded with four raised bands decorated with elaborately gilt compartments, owner's name at foot, boards decorated with double gilt fillets.
Copy free from foxing.

First edition.
Small occasional foxing, otherwise a good copy.

First edition.
A very good copy with practically no foxing.

First duodecimo edition of this selection compiled by Sainte-Beuve.
Half bronze sheep binding, spine in four compartments decorated with gilt fillets and dotted lines, chocolate shagreen title label, contemporary binding.
A few scattered light foxing spots of no consequence.

First edition on ordinary paper.

Purple half-cloth Bradel binding, smooth spine with a gilt floral motif, gilt initials and double fillet at foot, marbled paper boards, lower corners rubbed, contemporary binding.

Spine sunned, a few small spots of foxing mostly affecting the margins of the leaves.

Precious presentation copy inscribed by Emile Zola to a major inspiration for Germinal: "A Yves Guyot son dévoué confrère. Emile Zola."

Guyot was the author of a novel on an accident and a strike in the mines of Northern France. Together with his economic theories and his series of reports on the Anzin miners’ strike, his work had a profound influence on Zola in the writing of this masterpiece. Guyot even assisted Zola in his research, and introduced him to  socialist deputy Alfred Giard with whom Zola visited mines for his novel.

L'œuvre [The Masterpiece]
Charpentier, Paris 1886, 13x19cm, bound.
First edition. One of 175 numbered copies on hollande, only deluxe copies after 10 on japon.
Half morocco signed binding by Laurenchet, raised bands, marbled paper covers, enpapers and pastedown endpapers, original wrappers preserved, gilt over untrimmed edges.
Nice copy in a handsome binding.

Final edition, in part original, one of 100 numbered copies on Holland, only large papers after 10 China.
Work illustrated with a portrait on the frontispiece engraved on China by Gustave Flaubert.
It is the very last version of
Madame Bovary, entirely reviewed and corrected by Gustave Flaubert one year before his death on which he made 1200 corrections.
Following the top, pages 387 to 470 show documents of the trial brought against Gustave Flaubert in 1857 entitled Réquisitoire, Plaidoirie et Jugement du procès intenté à l'auteur devant le Tribunal correctionnel de Paris, hearings on 31 January and 7 February 1857.
Binding in full forest green morocco, spine in five compartments with some restorations, set with gilt stippling and adorned with richly decorated panels, gilt dentelle at the foot, gilt roll tooling on the spine ends (some small tears on those at the top), boards stamped with a large gilt dentelle, double gilt fillet on the leading edges (a little accident without affecting that of the upper board), marbled endpapers, framing of a gilt dentelle on the pastedown endpapers, following endpapers in marbled paper, all edges marbled and gilt, elegant binding signed Petit et Trimoullier, Simier's successor.
One light mark on the back of a marbled endpaper with light discharge on the facing page.
A very beautiful copy of the final of one of the most important texts of the second half of the 19th century set in a wonderful binding by Petit.

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.

Charpentier et Dumont, Paris 1835-1837, 13 x 21.5 cm, 5 bound volumes
The first edition of the last three volumes. "The first two volumes were reprinted by Charpentier in 1835 without their frontispieces" (Clouzot).
Contemporary half light brown calf over marbled paper boards, spine with large typographic fleurons both gilt and in blind, gilt dentelles to head and foot, gilt initials and title and volume labels of black sheep, marbled endpapers and guards, all edges marbled.
Title and volume labels sunned, a few small scuffs to head and foot of spines. Scattered foxing.
Provenance: Library of the Château de Bois-Boudran with its ex-libris laid down to front pastedown of each volume. Initials "CG" for Charles Greffulhe in gold to spine.
A rare copy in a contemporary uniform binding.

First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on Holland, only large papers after 10 Japan.
Binding in half red morocco, spine in five compartments set with blind tooled fillets, gilt date at the foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, wrappers (a tiny piece missing from the margin of the second board) and spine preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed Patrice Goy.
Beautiful copy pleasantly set.