The Honour of the Army and Other Stories by Émile Zola. Edited with a preface by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

London: Chatto & Windus, 1901. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/good. A Very Good to Very Good + copy of the first UK Edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original brown cloth -- a variant binding without a catalogue (mildly askew, rubbing to the leading corners, spine ends, and to the front board's bottom edge), in a Good dust jacket with fading to the spine and to the panel extremities, moderate wear, and significant tape repairs to the verso; being a collection of nine (9) short stories. A (presumed) prior owner's pencil signature appears on front free endpaper, there are spots to the closed page block's outer edges, some toning to the free endpapers and to the title pages as well as to a number of the leaves. Per Wikipedia: "Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in his renowned newspaper opinion headlined J'Accuse…! Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902." Nineteenth Century and turn of the Century Zola works in their original dust jackets are QUITE SCARCE INDEED, making this copy A REMARKABLE FIND.




Edited by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly.

19th Century and turn of the Century Zola in the dust jacket are RARE.