Paris

Edition illustrated by Grandville.
Half fir green shagreen binding with corners, smooth spine decorated with triple gilt cartouches embellished with gilt decorative motifs, fragile joints, double gilt fillets on green cloth boards, moiré paper endpapers and pastedowns, all edges gilt.
Work illustrated with a frontispiece and 117 plates.
Some minor foxing.

First edition, a first impression copy numbered in the press, the only printing with 19 on Hollande paper.
Modern Bradel binding in half ochre cloth over marbled paper boards, spine with central gilt fleuron, double fillet to foot, navy blue morocco title piece.
Autograph inscription from Louis Pergaud to Louis Chaffurin.
An infinitesimal marginal lack to head of half title, as well as a faint dampstain stretching along the subsequent pages.

First edition, one of 500 numbered copies on pur fil.
This copy is enriched with an inscription from Jean Cocteau decorated with a drawing of a young man’s face.
Spine very slightly and insignificantly faded, a good copy.

First collected edition, a first issue copy.
Handsome autograph inscription signed by the author to Jules Renard.
This copy is enriched with the famous ex libris of the dedicatee drawn and engraved by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, laid down on the ffep.
Spine slightly cracked at head and foot, one joint cracked and repaired in the inside margin with a piece of adhesive tape, two small tears to inner margins repaired with adhesive tape, occasional wormtracks affecting some guards.
This copy, though an ordinary paper copy, is well-margined.