L'Assommoir

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.