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First edition of the German translation by Eveline Passet, published a year after the original French edition.

Publisher's boards, copy complete with its illustrated dust jacket, which bears a tear repaired with adhesive tape.

Autograph inscription signed by Daniel Pennac to his close friend Franklin [Rist], enhanced with an original drawing in black felt-tip pen depicting a little man brandishing an axe and shouting "Rends-moi mon livre, Franklin" [Give my book back to me!" at another, who replies "Niemals !" [Never!] D. Pennac.

An amusing inscription in a volume from the celebrated Malaussène saga.

Franklin Rist is a close friend of Pennac, who dedicated Comme un roman to him. Pennac also gave the name Franklin Rist, as a playful nod, to one of the characters in his novel Kamo, l'agence Babel: « Il s’appelait Franklin Rist. Il avait seize ou dix-sept ans, une voix basse et grave, des manières douces, mais, sous son calme apparent, les chutes du Niagara en ébullition. Il correspondait avec une certaine Netotchka Niezvanov... »