Published by Paris, 1900
Seller: NUDEL BOOKS, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 4to, decorated paper covers, laid in loose are 25 b&w images of the cover of this anarchist mag., 17 of these by Steinlen, a number having to do with the Dreyfus Affair, #32 of the limited edition, SIGNED by someone, (VVcls2/2).
Published by Bibliothèque Internationale d'Édition, E. Sansot & Cie, Paris, 1907
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
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.