First edition, one of 45 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, head print. Nice copy despite two small traces of sunstroke in the head and foot of the back. Beautiful autograph dedication signed by Jacques Chardonne to his friend the writer and publisher Jean-Paul Caracalla: "To Jean-Paul Caracalla, universal man and yet rich in the (illegible word) and Jeanine who is several women between whom ( I hesitate, but each of them has my highest affection, Jacques Chardonne. "