First edition on ordinary paper. Half black shagreen Bradel binding by Goy & Vilaine, spine titled in palladium, covers and spine preserved, top edge palladium. Autograph inscription signed by Julien Gracq to Professor Georges Blin : "... cette plongée dans les "âges bruns"...[…this foray into the “brown ages”]" Yellowing. A very good copy in a handsome binding.