(DREYFUS AFFAIR).

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $650

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28th January and 4th February

Place

London

Publication

1898

Description

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.

summary

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.

Unbound. Folio.

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