(L'Oeuvre)

or

Claude Lantier's Struggle for Fame

A Realistic Novel

by Emile Zola

Vizetelly & Co, London 1888

Original blue cloth hardback with red tooled lettering to front board and gold tooled lettering to spine. 

Decorative endpapers. 

Frontispiece illustration. 

Page edges foxed.

Some foxing to prelims and the some pages.

Pencil line annotations to page edges, easily rubbed out. 

Boards bumped at corners and rubbed along edges.

Some marks to cloth. 

Slight spine slant. 

RARE novel.