(DREYFUS AFFAIR).

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 108

(DREYFUS AFFAIR).

The Jewish Chronicle Supplement. “I Accuse…! Letters to the President of the Republic and the Minister for War. By Emile Zola.” English translation of the Open Letter that was first published in L’Aurore on January 13, 1898. ff. 2. <<* WITH:>> The Jewish Chronicle. “Limelight on the Dreyfus Case, Mr. Christie Murray’s Lecture.” ff. 3. Unbound. Folio.

London: 28th January and 4th February 1898

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $650

The novelist David Christie Murray (1847-1907) strongly praised Zola, pointing out that after toiling through poverty and privation to fame and wealth, he braved imprisonment and ruin out of pure love of the pursuit of justice.