first edition. Binding to bradel in full red calico, smooth lightened spine with a gold central floral pattern, double thread and dates in golden tail piece as black shagreen, marginally discolored boards with small scratches, bookplate Adolphe Racot pasted on a contreplat, contemporary binding signed cold Pierson. Signed autograph Emile Zola Adolphe Racot "... devoted his colleague ..." Some minor foxing.