ZOLA (Émile). La Bête humaine. Paris: G. Charpentier et Cie, 1890. - In-18, 183 x 125: (2 ff.), 415 pp., (1 f.), 8 pp. catalog, printed cover. Red half-maroquin with corners, gilt fillets, ornate ribbed spine, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (Yseux sr. de Thierry-Simier). First edition of this novel, the seventeenth title in the Rougon-Macquart series. One of 250 numbered copies on Hollande paper (no. 77). A very fine copy bound by Yseux, very well preserved, complete with the publisher's catalog.