First edition on current paper. Binding in brown full morocco, smooth back adorned with a set of nets and tracery gilded framed by black nets and dotted golden repeating on the boards, black rollers on the caps, guards and contreplats of marbled paper, framing of a large golden lace on the contreplats, covers and back preserved, golden head. Pleasant copy enriched by an autograph letter signed by Henri Barbusse, dated July 25, 1899, headed by the Ministry of Agriculture, thanking his correspondent for an invitation he will soon be honoring.