An <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">inscribed</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=%C3%89mile+Zola&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Émile Zola</a>'s first book.<ul><li>Émile Zola (French).</li><li>Paris:&nbsp;J. Hetzel et A. Lacroix,&nbsp;[1864].</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>[4], 320 pages.</li><li>Inscribed on the half-title to the distinguished literary critic and author, Jules Levallois (1829 - 1903): “à M. Jules Levallois “temoignage du devouement et de la sympathie de l’auteur [a testimony of the author’s devotion and sympathy] Emile Zola.”</li><li>With loosely inserted calling card of the author.</li><li>Text is in French.</li><li>Full blue morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, by Taffin, with the original yellow printed wrappers bound in.</li></ul> First edition of the author’s first book. Zola was 24 years old when Contes à Ninon, was published. The calling card, circa 1890 is engraved "Emile Zola / rue de Bruxelles, 21 bis" and inscribed in pen by Zola, "Avec mes remerciements et l'expression de ma sympathie [with my thanks and the expression of my sympathy]."

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