First edition. Braid binding half caramel saddle corners, smooth back slightly thinned adorned with gold cartridges, gilt nets framing marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers (two small angular maqnues on the second flat), gilded head, Contemporary binding. Autograph signed by Anatole France to Albert Clemenceau, politician, lawyer and brother of Georges Clemenceau.