First edition under this title, one of 500 numbered copies on white laid paper containing a state of the etchings. Full old rose morocco binding, spine with four wide false raised bands decorated with fillets and compartments with cherry branch designs stamped in blind, boards decorated with a large plate framed with fillets representing a war helmet abandoned in a landscape of ruins surmounted by a cherry branch, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, contemporary binding signed Kieffer. Work illustrated with etchings and wood engravings by Paul Baudier. Large manuscript signature of Georges Duhamel on the half-title page. Handsome copy well established in a binding with decoration characteristic of René Kieffer's work.