Les Travailleurs de la mer

First edition, with no edition statement.
Contemporary half chocolate shagreen bindings, spines with raised bands; marbled paper boards, with laid paper endpapers and pastedowns. Spines evenly lightened. Edges rubbed. Wear to headcaps and bands. A few spots of foxing, notably on the fore-edge. A good copy.
Without doubt, just after The Man Who Laughs, Hugo’s greatest novelistic achievement, depicting on the island of Guernsey the struggle of a solitary man against the ocean.