First edition, one of the numbered copies on alfa paper reserved for the service de presse. Significant ink stains at head of second volume affecting only very slightly and marginally the final front endpaper, small marginal tears to boards. Precious dated inscription signed by René Benjamin: "A Sacha Guitry, ce livre qui n'a qu'une idée, parbleu, c'est de lui plaire." ["To Sacha Guitry, this book which has only one idea, by Jove, it is to please him."]