First edition, printed in a small number of copies at the author's expense and never commercially sold; there were no large paper copies.
This is a set of printed proofs in plain covers that the author distributed to his friends.
Once the Axis forces stopped doing so well, Jacques Chardonne tried to recover most of the copies he had given away to friends in order to destroy them.
One small lack to plain upper paper cover, a few wormholes also; otherwise a good copy.
Very rare.