First edition of the French translation, one of 350 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies after 50 on pure thread paper. Worming to boards, blue spots to spine, light interior foxing, dampstain to head of pages in one signature, ballpoint pen numbering to upper right corner of first endpaper. Copy expanded with a press clipping extract: "Malaparte mis au "ban de la ville" de Naples." Rare but in this condition.