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4X7. First collier books edition 1962, softcover with wear and fading, some pencil markings to front cover; pages 97-112 uncut; creasing and rubbing to spine covers; some staining to front cover; book price on front cover 66 cents; with a new introduction by Henri Peyre; The powerful, uncompromsisng and unsurpassed story of a French courtesan _PAB_

xxvi, 409 p., [35] leaves of plates: ill. (some col. ); 29 cm. Heritage Press. Hardcover in slip case. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily.

Stated first print. Some cover, corner, crease. Pages very good. Classic cover art. Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was la Ville Lumiere, a perfect victim for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-siecle moral corruption. The fate of Nana, the Helen of Troy of the Second Empire, and daughter of the laundress in L'Assommoir, reduced Flaubert to almost inarticulate gasps of admiration: 'Chapter 14, unsurpassable! ...Yes! ...Christ Almighty! ...Incomparable...Straight out of Babylon! ' Boulevard society is presented with painstaking attention to detail, and Zola's documentation of the contemporary...489 pages. Stamp inside cover.

Pictorial cloth boards are aging, spinecover tanned. Prior owner name stamped on feb. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. This large book will require extra shipping charges for Priority or International shipping.

A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 545 pages. Full green cloth boards. Attractive small format: 4 3/4"w x 7 1/2"h. Modern Library #142. Rockwell Kent torch bearer design on endpapers and embossed on cover. No date listed, circa 1950. Loose front hinge.

Text in English. Beige cloth binding with faded red spine covering. No publication date. Pages are tanned with age and the top corners are bumped.

Light browning and wear to outer covers.

Wraps have chipped edges. Pages are lightly tanning with no markings in text. Glued binding on vintage paperbacks may be brittle.