first edition. Binding half morocco chocolate brown with corners, back slightly thinned on four bands set with black nets, golden tail date marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, covers and backs (faded) preserved, gilded head, Binding signed Kra. Precious autograph signed Pierre Loti: "At Saint-Saëns master faithfully." Our copy is enriched by an autograph letter signed and dated by Camille Saint-Saëns a page in which he offers his condolences to the remote. Foxing on the last White Guard. Pleasant beautifully drawn copy.