first edition on the current paper. Binding half black shagreen, back with five nerves extending on the flat, slightly rubbed joints heads and feet, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, wrappers and back preserved and bound in, gilded head. autograph dedication of the author signed autograph Maurice Barres to Thierry Martel, son Gip, a physician and nationalist known to have committed suicide at the Germans entered Paris.
First edition. Half brown sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt tools, traces of rubbing to spine and joints, marbled paper boards, gilt lettering at foot of spine: commissaire de police d'Ervy (Aube), contemporary binding. Library stamps on endpapers, handsome interior condition.