Lined cardboard from the publisher. Condition: Very good. Edition illustrated on the frontispiece with a color portrait of the author by Yvonne Ducuing. Gray canvas cardboard, leopard paper lining and endpaper. Edition of 2,500 numbered copies reserved for friends of L'Express. autograph of Claude Simon to Charles Tansky, slight tear on the page where the autograph is located. Foreign buyers are welcome, please check shipping cost before buying.  Careful, guaranteed shipping