First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers, one of the review copies service. Small gaps in the head and foot of the back, an angular lack at the foot of the second flat, name written in the pen at the head of the first guard. Signed autograph of Pierre Véry to a friend named Joëlle: "... this attempt at romantic detective novel" on a piece of the bibliography page of Pierre Véry from another book and which was pasted on the first guard.