Contes à Ninon

The first edition of the author's first book.
Contemporary half red shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine in five compartments with gilt fillets and triple gilt frames, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, collector's blindstamp to head of one endpaper, speckled edges.
Handsome, rare autograph inscription to this text from Emile Zola to a monsieur Boucher.
Faint dampstain to the first 70 pages, a little light foxing.
There are very few inscribed copies of this text.