First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy. Elegant half maroon calf over geometric marbled paper boards by Goy & Vilaine, date, title, author and work in anthracite palladium to spine, maroon paper endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine (slightly faded) preserved. Handsome autograph inscription from Eugène Ionesco to Marcel Aymé. A very good copy nicely bound.