First edition, one of 109 numbered copies on vergé paper pur fil paper Lafuma and re-imposed in Tellière quarto format, the tirage de tête. Handsome autograph inscription, dated and signed, by Jean Giono : "A Jacques Dubois avec ma cordiale sympathie. Cette histoire de la douleur des brebis et de la mort des moutons. Manosque Mars 1932." Spine slightly wrinkled and with small traces of sunning to head and foot. A good copy.