JOUVE (Paul) - BALZAC (Honoré de). A passion in the desert. Paris: Maxime Cottet-Dumoulin, [1949]. - In-4, 325 x 266: (6 ff. first blank), 70 pp., (3 ff. first blank), printed cover. Black box, large piece of diamond-shaped stingray edged with white bakelite rods in the centre of the first course, smooth back, white net framed inside, dark brown suede linings and endpapers, untrimmed, cover and back preserved, black box shirt with black back and overlapping bands , case (M. J. Guian-Milliaud). Superb illustrated edition of 67 compositions by Paul JOUVE engraved with etching by Raymond Haasen, that is to say 54 banners, representing 7 different subjects repeated, 3 illustrations on double page in colour and 10 full page, including one in black and 9 in colour. Edition of 123 copies on Arches vellum, plus a few copies signed by the artist and the publisher at the justification. One of 110 enriched with a black suite of full-page and double-page illustrations . Sending of Paul Jouve to Jean Jacques François. Very nice copy bound by Marie-Josée Guian for her personal account.