First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy. Light foxing to lower left corner of first cover, handsome copy. Affectionate autograph inscription signed by Nathalie Sarraute to her great friend the actress Erika Kralik, companion of the director, playwright and writer Simone Benmussa: "A ma chouchoute, Erika qui, Dieu merci ! ne change pas. Sa vieillle amie fidèle... Nathalie." (To my darling, Erika who, thank God! does not change. Her faithful old friend... Nathalie.) Assisted by her companion Simone Benmussa, Erika Kralik created the staging of this play by Nathalie Sarraute in February 1986 at the Comédie des Champs-Elysées. Literary adviser to the Jean-Louis Barrault - Madeleine Renaud Company, then, in 1957, editor-in-chief of Cahiers Renaud-Barrault, Simone Benmussa also directed, from the Odéon theatre, the cultural service and the Cahiers of the Renaud-Barrault company. She adapted for the theatre works by her friend Nathalie Sarraute including "Enfance" in 1984 (with the recorded voice of Nathalie Sarraute) and "Pour unoui ou pour un non" in 1987, Pierre Klossowski, Jean Cocteau, Gertrude Stein, Samuel Beckett... She was the companion of actress Erika Kralik.