First edition in French, printed on ordinary paper. Handsome copy despite a small marginal stain on the back cover. Signed autograph inscription from Lawrence Durrell to Maurice Noël. Provenance: from the library of Maurice Noël with his amusing bookplate pasted on an endpaper and his motto: "Adada sur mon bidet. Tout et rien !" ["Adada on my bidet. Everything and nothing!"]