Dames de Californie

First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on Japan paper, the tirage de tête.
Elegant half black calf over snakeskin-effect marbled paper boards by Goy & Vilaine, spine in six compartments with name, date, author and title in palladium, maroon endpapers and pastedowns, top edge palladium, covers and spine preserved.
With a frontispiece portrait of Joseph Kessel by Achille Ouvré.
A very good copy in an elegant binding.