Definitive edition with some parts in first edition as it is expanded with unpublished letters and pieces. Half mouse-colored shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands, traces of rubbing to joints, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, contemporary binding. As frontispiece, a portrait of the author by René Ménard. Detailed booksellers' catalog labels concerning this work taped to the verso of the front endpaper.