Zola Émile Brown Alec (13 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Arrow Edition. VG, Edgewear, creases, ink name, browning. Drama, set in the Parisian slums. Translated from the French. Arrow 027. Photo on request.

Soft cover. Condition: Good +. First Bestseller Library Edition. G+, Edgewear, tears, creases, abrasion, browning. Drama, translated from the French. Photo on request.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Arrow Edition. VG, Edgewear, creases, spine lean, browning. Drama, set in the Parisian slums. Translated from the French. Arrow 027. Photo on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Ex-library with usual stamops. Dust jacket with protective plastic cover. In this novel, Zola addresses the the issue of male chastity and how a Catholic priest might reconcile his vow with human nature where young Abbe Mouret loves purely and utterly, a young girl. Clearly different from the scandals around priests today! 312 pages. Quoted postage for UK 2nd class. Overseas at least £10.35.

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st UK Edition. VG+, Shelfwear, mild bumping, foxing, browning/VG, Price-clipped, edgewear, mild foxing, browning. Drama, translated from the French. Striking jacket by Pagram. Photos on request.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. VG. Cover art by Wayne Pagram.

hardbound. Condition: Good. Emile Zola novel, treating the theme of chastity amongst the Roman Catholic clergy; translated from the French by Alec Brown; prominent foxing/tanning to endpapers, prelims and text block; scattered foxing in text, o.w. Good; dustwrapper edgeworn, rubbed and foxed, o.w. Good. Dustwrapper. 312pp. 8vo. Good.

Hardcover. pp. 312. 8vo. Black cloth boards. 8vo. Lightest shelfwear, slight offsetting to endpapers, contents clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good and housed in very good lightly rubbed exquisitely illustrated dustjacket. Overall, very good+. "In this novel Zola studies the problem of male chastity. How does the Roman Catholic priest, vowed to celibacy, learn to keep unbroken such complete denial of the flesh?".

Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Drunkard is the English translation of L'Assommoir, one of Émile Zola's most important and controversial novels, first published in 1877. A major work of literary naturalism, the novel presents an unflinching portrayal of working-class life in Paris, tracing the destructive effects of poverty, alcoholism and social hardship through the life of its central character, Gervaise Macquart. This edition presents the translation by Arthur Symons, bringing one of Zola's most powerful social novels to an English-speaking readership. Drunkard, by Emile Zola, Translated by Arthur Symons. With an introduction by Alec Brown. Published by The Citadel Press, New York, 1958. First US edition thus. Printed in Great Britain. A very good black cloth hardback with printed title to spine. Housed in a very good dustjacket. The jacket with a discreet tape repair to rear, near head of spine. Not price clipped. Some light wear to extremities. Some mild offsetting and spotting to endpapers. Text block is generally very good - clean with mild age-toning. Text in English. 408pp. Dimensions: approx 205mm high x 140mm wide x 43mm deep. Weight: approximately 510g (unpacked).

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 312 pages ; (8º). Notes: Translation of La faute de L'abbé Mauret. Translated from the French by Alec Brown. Subjects: Catholic Church, Clergy, France ; Fiction. Sexual behaviour, France ; Fiction. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 312 pages ; (8º). Notes: Translation of La faute de L'abbé Mauret. Translated from the French by Alec Brown. Subjects: Catholic Church, Clergy, France ; Fiction. Sexual behaviour, France ; Fiction. 1 Kg.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First American edition of a new translation. Octavo (20cm.); original cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 266pp. Rear jacket panel a bit dust-soiled, spine toned, else Fine in Very Good or better jacket. Later English translation of Zola's 1868 novel of the same title.