
First edition, limited to 1,000 copies, this being one of 950 printed on Outhenin-Chalandre paper.
A fine copy, with a frontispiece map of the Pays d'Ouche region and complete with the publisher's printed publicity slip.
Signed and dated autograph inscription from Jean de La Varende to the bibliophile Maurice Gorrée, dated 1954.
In 1951, the novel was adapted for the screen by Yves Allégret, starring Jean Marais, Françoise Christophe and Jean Debucourt.