First edition, one of the service de presse (advance) copies. Spine and covers lightly and marginally sunned. Autograph inscription signed by Henri Pourrat to Madame Chemine on a piece of paper pasted on an endpaper: "... ces histoires d'innocents qui comme des duvets de chardon couraient les campagnes..." ["...these stories of innocents who like thistle down ran through the countryside..."]