The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies. Handsome copy retaining its publisher's wraparound band which has some minor marginal tears of no consequence. Full-page signed autograph inscription from Daniel Picouly to a couple: "Pour Françoise et Yves, pour une communauté de senteur de soleil et de ce sable qui rend les espaces incertains et la mémoire fausse..." ["For Françoise and Yves, for a shared sense of sunshine and that sand which makes spaces uncertain and memory false..."]