Author: ZOLA, EMILE
Title: Nana (Modern Library #142. 1)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1960]. Hardcover. Once banned for its perceived obscenity, "Nana" is the 9th in author's 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series. Emile Zola (1840-1902) first published "Nana" in 1880. This Modern Library reprint edition with an introduction by Ernest Boyd and a dust jacket illustration of the title character and an admirer on a Paris street. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 393 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1960 (no publication date appears in book). ML #142.1. --- A well-preserved copy: clean, tightly-bound, bright and lacking markings. Unclipped ($1.95) jacket with mild chafing to spine ends, otherwise bright, intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector. ; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xii, 545, (2, ads) pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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