First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy. Adhesive paper stains at head and foot of endpapers. Signed autograph inscription by Michel Butor to his friend the art critic and Nouveau Roman specialist Georges Raillard, enhanced with an original collage and fold occupying two pages. Includes a piece of the envelope on which Michel Butor wrote Georges Raillard's address, when he was director of the French Institute of Barcelona.