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1895rif. 005427Livingston MT: Hutchinson & Co. 1895. The eighth in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series which first appeared as a novel in 1878. This is a Very Good Minus copy of the First English Edition noted by the publisher as the "sole authorized version." Translated and with a Preface by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly. Maroon cloth binding with titling and decorations in gilt on the spine and front cover. Clean text; xi 386 pages with a two-page advert in the rear. Containing 94 wood engravings by E. Thevenot. There is no publication date but bibliographers agree on 1895. Bumped rubbing to the margins endpapers tanned. The spine has faded but the gilt remains presentable. The signatures have cracked at page 144-145 hence the "minus" condition but the book remains sound otherwise. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Illus. by E. Thevenot. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hutchinson & Co. Hardcover
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rif. 64630Imp. Chaix, s.d. [1890] Spectaculaire affiche destinée aux colonnes Morris où la Justice aux yeux bandés déverse une pluie d'argent sur les spéculateurs qui s'affairent devant le Palais Brongniart. Exemplaire plié, en bon état malgré de petites déchirures au centre, sans manques.
rif. 64630Imp. Chaix, s.d. [1890] Spectaculaire affiche destinée aux colonnes Morris où la Justice aux yeux bandés déverse une pluie d'argent sur les spéculateurs qui s'affairent devant le Palais Brongniart. Exemplaire plié, en bon état malgré de petites déchirures au centre, sans manques.
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1897rif. mon0002879963George Barrie & Sons 1897-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. . 2-volume set. Deluxe binding in full red morocco with extensive gilt decorations rasied bands on the spines. Covers show minor rubbing to the extremities joints starting and slight loss at the crown of the spines. To edges gilt tooled doublure pastedowns silk moire free endpapers. Pages are tanned and clean. George Barrie & Sons hardcover
1890rif. Zola7ZOLA Emile 1840-1902 Corrected proofs for his novel The Beast within Paris January 1890 45 proofs printed on recto Very good overall condition except some slightly frayed margin on the first folios some browning A precious complete set of proofs for the original edition of his masterpiece La Bête humaine the seventeenth volume in the Les Rougon-Macquart series. At the heart of the writer's creative process: a total of 45 proof sheets with extensive autograph corrections in Zola's own hand. One of the very rare Zolian relics still in private hands La Bête humaine in the Making The proof sheets in this set bear witness to the author's progress in writing his masterpiece. Émile Zola undertook a meticulous rereading of every line refining the style striking through passages and making corrections to achieve greater accuracy in tone and rhythm. As such the set is extensively annotated with the exception of proof sheets no. 35 to 38. The most substantial corrections appear on sheets no. 2 to 13 and no. 40 which correspond to Chapters I to IV and XI. Special attention was also paid to typography further evidence of the naturalist writer's thorough and exacting rereading. Georges Charpentier added penciled notes on twenty-nine of the proof sheets along with two annotations instructing Zola to henceforth adhere to the paginated layout. These proofs represent an intermediate stage between the manuscript and the published text as evidenced by certain excerpts: – " Roubaud près de sa femme écoutait en fixant également sur elle des yeux vacillants. Il y eut une minute de mortelle angoisse " become " Près de sa femme Roubaud écoutait en fixant également sur elle ses gros yeux pâles " then in the final version " Près de sa femme Roubaud écoutait en fixant sur elle ses gros yeux vifs ". – " Seulement ce matin-là Roubaud dut reprendre haleine comme si sa respiration lui manquait à la suite d'un saisissement inutile. Il hésitait il chercha avant de se rappeler ce que lui avait dit son collègue " become " Seulement ce matin-là Roubaud hésitant dut chercher avant de se rappeler ce que lui avait dit son collègue ". Folio #40 includes an important addition of seventeen lines in which the author plays with the lyrical register. Love and death invite each other: " – Dis mon chéri pourquoi donc ai-je peur Sais-tu toi quelque chose qui me menace – Non non sois tranquille rien ne te menace. – C'est que tout mon corps tremble par moments. Il y a derrière moi un continuel danger que je ne vois pas mais que je sens bien… Pourquoi donc ai-je peur – Non non n'aie pas peur… Je t'aime je ne laisserai jamais personne te faire du mal… Vois comme cela est bon d'être ainsi l'un dans l'autre ! Il y eut un silence délicieux. " The novel La Bête humaine the seventeenth volume in the Rougon-Macquart saga was written between May 1889 and January 1890 and released in bookstores by Georges Charpentier during the first week of March 1890 following its serialization in the weekly magazine La Vie populaire from November 14 1889 to March 2 1890. Like Germinal 1885 it focuses on a facet of the industrial and working-class world of the late 19th century. In this judicial novel the main characters are murderers. Émile Zola wove together several real-life criminal cases likely including the infamous crimes of "Jack the Ripper" creating a bleak violent and monstrous tableau in which killings occur for motives as varied as greed jealousy or even hereditary madness. Through this narrative—and his exploration of remorse—Zola situates his work within contemporary debates on the moral and social meaning of crime. His writing was nourished by readings of Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky in a French translation published in 1885 and criminological studies by Cesare Lombroso Prosper Lucas and Gabriel Tarde. He also takes the opportunity to satirize a judiciary subservient to political power through the character of Judge Denizet. The judicial error he commits underscores the limits of justice as administered by men and the inherent fallibility of any rational method. Readers were struck by the confrontation between tradition and modernity by the stunning fusion of primal instinct and technological advancement. The locomotive is endowed with human traits becoming a character in its own right—ultimately transformed into a tragic "blind and deaf beast loosed amid death." Finally this lyrical element is enriched by a fantastical dimension as Henri Mitterrand explains: " La Bête humaine endures through its fantastical elements the intensity of its leitmotifs and rhythms and the perfection of certain passages—such as the final ones—where the extravagance of the action and the baroque modernity of the setting come together in astonishing harmony. " Literary relics of Émile Zola are extremely rare in private hands. In accordance with the novelist's wishes his wife Alexandrine Zola entrusted nearly all of his manuscript materials to the nation in 1904. As a result the invaluable dossiers and a large portion of the corrected proofs for Les Rougon-Macquart and Les Trois Villes are now held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France BnF. This set of proofs was unknown to Henri Mitterand when he prepared his edition of La Bête humaine for the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade Paris Gallimard NRF 1966; reissued in 2021. Charpentier
1957rif. 0106459Elek Books: 1957. First UK edition. Translated from the French by Brian Rhys. Hardcover with unclipped dust cover. Dust cover intact but wear to its extremities. Some marks to cover- now protected by a lightweight mylar cover. Previous owners name to FFEP. Binding tight and text clean. Elek Books hardcover
1957rif. 344890London: Elek Books 1957. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper not price clipped now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 294 pages 21 cm. Summary: The arrival of Abbe Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has profound consequences for the community and for the family of Francois Mouret in particular. Faujas and his mother come to lodge with Francois his wife Marthe and their three children and his cousin Marthe quickly falls under the influence of the priest. Ambitious and unscrupulous Faujas gradually infiltrates into all quarters of the town intent on political as well as religious conquest. Intrigue slander and insinuation tear the townsfolk apart creating suspicion and distrust and driving the Mourets to ever more extreme actions. In one of the most psychological of his novels Zola links small-town politics to the greater political and national dramas of the Second Empire. Subjects: Fiction. French fiction in English. 19th century fiction. London: Elek Books hardcover
rif. Zola11ZOLA Émile 1840-1902 Autograph letter signed " Emile Zola " to Albert Lacroix Paris 13 September 1867 2 pp. in-8° in black ink letterhead of the Librairie Internationale " Zola " annotation from period and in black ink from another hand small gaps in the lower margin affecting a letter slits in the folds discreet repairs with Japan paper A remarkable letter from the very young Zola a few weeks before the launch of Thérèse Raquin the first novel that made him famous to the general public – Expressing a pressing financial need the writer nevertheless cherishes high ambitions for the success of his work It is in this very same letter that Zola first announces the final title of the book " Cher Monsieur Si je ne vous ai pas envoyé les numéros de L'Artiste¹ qui contiennent mon roman c'est que M. Guérin employé de la Librairie Internationale m'avait assuré que vous deviez avoir ces numéros à Bruxelles. Aujourd'hui encore il me dit que votre maison de Paris vous les enverra si vous ne les avez pas. Donc je ne m'inquiète pas de ce détail. Quant au titre il sera d'autant meilleur selon moi qu'il sera plus simple. L'œuvre s'intitule dans L'Artiste : Un Mariage d'amour mais je compte changer cela et mettre : Thérèse Raquin le nom de l'héroïne. Je crois que le temps des titres abracadabrants est fini et que le public n'a plus aucune confiance dans les enseignes. D'ailleurs la question du titre n'en sera pas une. Je vous avoue que j'ai besoin d'argent et que je préférerai vous vendre la propriété de l'œuvre pour un certain nombre d'années si vous croyez pouvoir m'offrir une somme raisonnable. Dans le cas où vous ne voudriez pas acheter l'œuvre je vous demanderais le douze pour cent sur le prix fort payable le jour de la mise en vente. Je tiens surtout à éviter les ennuis qui se sont produits au sujet de La Confession de Claude son deuxième ouvrage publié également chez Lacroix deux ans auparavant. Il est préférable que la question argent soit réglée sur-le-champ entre nous sans avoir besoin de recourir plus tard à des inventaires. Veuillez chez Monsieur me donner une réponse définitive au plus tôt. Je tiens à ce que ce livre paraisse en octobre. Prenez connaissance de l'œuvre laissez-moi choisir un titre bien simple² et faites-moi à votre tour vos conditions. Dites-moi combien vous me donneriez pour la propriété de l'œuvre pendant un nombre fixé d'années. L'affaire peut être conclue en quelques jours et c'est ce que je désire. En deux mots voici le sujet du roman : Camille et Thérèse deux jeunes époux introduisent Laurent dans leur intérieur. Laurent devient l'amant de Thérèse et tous deux poussés par la passion noient Camille pour se marier et goûter les joies d'une union légitime. Le roman est l'étude de cette union accomplie dans le meurtre ; les deux amants en arrivent à l'épouvante à la haine à la folie et ils rêvent l'un et l'autre de se débarrasser d'un complice. Au dénouement ils se suicident. L'œuvre est très dramatique très poignante et je compte sur un succès d'horreur. Une prompte réponse je vous prie. Votre dévoué Émile Zola " 1- Illustrated weekly magazine from 1831 to 1904 renowned for having published prints and quality writers. The novel originally titled Un Mariage d'amour had previously been serialized in the magazine. 2- On November 9 1867 A. Lacroix and Verboeckhoven booksellers-publishers informed Zola that they had given the proof to print the title and cover of Thérèse Raquin adding: "We have suppressed the word study which was in our opinion of the worst effect on the cover and which on the other hand could have harmed the volume in the sense that it might make people believe that your volume was an arid and too serious work and thereby alienate a whole class of readers. In any case this subtitle seemed useless to us; Isn't that your opinion too " The young Zola then 27 years old already gives us a glimpse of the confidence that would later be known for that of a writer who was quite certain of his work. He nevertheless remained in need which he explains here to Lacroix the latter being known among other things for having been the first publisher of Les Misérables. " I think the time for crazy headlines is over… " What is implied by Zola's choice to call the book Thérèse Raquin tends to erase the stage of serialization in L'Artiste. The writer flatters the publisher and therefore defines the "second birth" of the novel. This sense of the title which Zola was already refining at this time would later become one of his great talents giving decisive importance to this significant beginning. " The work is very dramatic very poignant and I'm counting on a horror success " By summarizing the story at the end of the letter Zola shows us that he is always very scrupulous in adapting to the recipient's preferences. He insists on the plot the dramatic scope the psychological dimension and finally the stylistic innovations. He makes hypotyposis his trademark at key moments. At that time Zola was the only standard-bearer of naturalism a literary movement that succeeded realism which he had exposed three years earlier in his famous missive to Anthony Valabrègue by means of the famous metaphor of the "trois écrans". Zola's reading effects are therefore data that can be easily converted into terms of editorial success. Thérèse Raquin was severely judged by the critics notably by Louis Ulbach who published in Le Figaro a violent article entitled "La littérature putrid". However it was a success and Zola became known to the general public. His career as a novelist was definitively launched… Bibliography: Correspondance t. I éd. du CNRS Les Presses de l'université de Montréal p. 522-523 n°199
1893rif. ZOLA3ZOLA Emile 1840-1902 Autograph letter signed " Emile Zola " to a colleague Paris 12th November 1893 1 p. 1/2 in-8 Usual fold marks some tiny spots A very moving letter almost entirely unpublished written at the end of the Rougon-Macquart saga – Zola explains that he no longer owns his books once published and evokes with a superb metaphor what they represent years later. The writer expresses with relevance and sensitivity the distance he feels from his books once all published. This letter offers a more general reflection on the author's relationship to his work. " Mon cher confrère Je ne préfère aucune de mes œuvres. Dans chacune j'aime mieux certaines pages celles où j'ai dit nettement ce que je voulais dire : voilà tout. Lorsque j'ai terminé un livre et que je l'ai donné au public il n'existe plus pour moi. Toute ma passion tombe et j'en commence un autre pour lequel je me passionne jusqu'à ce qu'il soit aux autres. Il faut que je fasse un effort lorsque je veux me souvenir des romans hélas ! trop nombreux que j'ai écrits. Ce sont comme des tombes de parents et d'amis autrefois bien chers sur lesquelles il me serait trop triste d'aller m'attendrir. Cordialement à vous. Emile Zola " The Rougon-Macquart saga came to an end with the publication by Charpentier of Docteur Pascal in the spring of 1893. Among the most famous of the saga are Germinal Nana and L'Assommoir. A total of twenty novels were written and published between 1870 and 1893. Zola is probably responding here to a fellow journalist wishing to make an article on the whole saga and what it represents in the eyes of the novelist. A summary of the letter and the quotation of a sentence are published in Volume VIII of the correspondence from an extract from the catalogue: "They are like graves of relatives and friends …" – This comparison illustrates the sadness that emanates from the moving statement and what Zola's works represent for Zola himself. Personification of books or metonymy designating the characters to whom the author gave life the "tombs" of course refer to death. References: Extr. cat. libr. Charavay n° 6599 Corr. t. VIII Presses de l'Université de Montréal / Editions du CNRS 1991
1910rif. RO40240193Chatto & Windus. 1910. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Tâchée, Dos abîmé, Intérieur acceptable. 140 pages. 1er plat illustré. Texte sur 2 colonnes en anglais. Etiquette de code sur le 1er plat. Tampons de bibliothèque sur le 1er plat et en page de titre.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
1900rif. R300150517CHATTO & WINDUS. 1900. In-8. Cartonnage d'éditeurs. Etat d'usage, Tâchée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. X + 305 pages + 32 pages - ouvrage essentiellement en anglais - tampons sur la page de titre - une étiquette collée sur le 1er plat - cartonnage polychrome - petite tâche blanche sur le 1er plat .. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
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1886rif. 6653900Vizetelly & Co 1886. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. With usual stamps and markings In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Gilt design and lettering on front board. Gilt lettering on backstrip. Slight shelf wear. Bumped corners. Split binding. Illustrated Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item700grams ISBN: Vizetelly & Co hardcover
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