Pot-Bouille ZOLA, Émile. (STIRLING, John, translated by [Pseudonym for Mary Neal Sherwood])

First American book edition. Translated by John Stirling. 16mo. 514pp., [30]pp. Decorative brown pebbled cloth stamped in black and gilt on front board and spine and just black stamping on rear board. "Catalogue of Books Published by T.B. Peterson & Brothers." Small chip on front fly bottom corner, neat ownership gift inscription on blank preliminary page, spine ends and corners lightly rubbed and bumped, topedge modestly soiled, else a very good or better copy. The tenth novel in the "Les Rougon-Macquart" series originally serialized between January and April 1882 in the periodical *Le Gaulois* before being published in book form by Charpentier in 1882. Scarce, *OCLC* locates only 1 copy.