First edition, one of 697 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies with 109 reimposed. Fine autograph inscription signed by Lucien Fabre. Our copy is enhanced with an original photograph of the author in swimwear posing by the sea, pasted on an endpaper. Furthermore, the dedicatee has also pasted press clippings about the author and adorned an endpaper with a handwritten quote from Chamfort and, finally, annotated certain passages of the work in the margins.