First edition, one of the numbered copies on alfa. Binding to bradel half percaline almond corners, smooth back, as piece of black grief, paper dishes decorative, preserved covers and backs, gilded head. Bel autograph signed by the author G. Lacalmette: "... this sorry story of the" Joy "that Father Henri Bremond just bless ..." A newspaper clipping on the allocation of the Prix Femina for "Joy" was glued on the front guards.