MOREL, Émile; Paul Adam, préf.; Steinlen, illus.

Les Gueules Noires

Paris: Bibliothèque Internationale d'Édition, E. Sansot & Cie. 1907. First Trade Edition. Quarto (24.5cm.); original grey pictorial wrappers; 207pp.; frontispiece & 14 tissue guarded plates; numerous text illus. throughout. Wrappers a bit worn, especially at spine edges; preliminaries foxed, else Very Good and sound overall.

Bleak collection of stories following in the footsteps of Zola's naturalistic novel Germinal. Mostly set in the mines of northern France; beautifully, albeit lugubriously, illustrated by the Art Nouveau painter and printmaker Théophile Steinlen. CRAUZAT 639.

Price: $350.00

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