First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy. Spine lightly creased, without consequence. Moving autograph inscription signed by Pierre Emmanuel, in which he evokes the Resistance, to Jacqueline and Gaston Baissette: "... en souvenir d'un temps où la face humaine était offensée, où quelques-uns, dont ils étaient, surent la défendre. Leur ami. Pierre Emmanuel." ["... in memory of a time when the human face was offended, when a few, among whom they were, knew how to defend it. Their friend. Pierre Emmanuel."] Together with a card on which Pierre Emmanuel has added a few words.