First edition printed on ordinary paper. Half bottle-green shagreen binding, browned spine with five raised bands outlined with black fillets, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, modest contemporary binding. Some light foxing to the endpapers. Provenance: from the library of Marcel Augagneur with his curious bookplate pasted on a pastedown. Signed and inscribed copy from Marcel Aymé to journalist Marcel Augagneur ("Gringoire" and "L'écho de Paris") who used the pseudonym Marc de Saligny for his writing.