Au Bonheur des dames, édition originale

Réf. 84971

€ 4500.00

Émile ZOLA

Bookbinder : Semet & Plumelle
Format : Fort in-12
Number of volumes : 1 volume
Binding : Hardcover
Collation : 521 pp

Bound in half garnet morocco with corners. Spine ribbed. Gilt date on heel. Head gilt. Covers preserved. Untrimmed. Fine binding signed Semet & Plumelle.

FIRST EDITION. One of the numbered copies on Hollande paper, the second largest paper after only 10 japons.

In this eleventh volume of the Rougon-Macquart series, Octave Mouret, already a widower and owner of Le Bonheur des Dames, the first of the dazzlingly successful department stores, has made it big. His ambition knew no bounds, and his success was total. The competition is crushed, the customers seduced, bewitched and the employees mastered. Only Denise stands up to him. In this cruel, social Darwinist world, she resists the temptation to give in to his advances, but Octave is resourceful.

Very nice copy