FRANCE (Anatole) - CAMOREYT (Jacques). The Gods are thirsty. Paris : L. Carteret, 1924. - In-8, 264 x 173 : (4 ff. first two blanks), 237 pp, (3 ff. last two blanks), 7 plates, illustrated cover. Red morocco, first plate decorated in the center with a mosaic composition, featuring a guillotine with a sun shining in the background, in a round frame composed of a red morocco scroll, spine ribbed with a gilt design, red morocco lining with a gilt fillet, red moiré silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, case (Semet et Plumelle). First and most successful illustrated edition, decorated with twenty-four original etchings by the painter and engraver Jacques CAMOREYT (1871-19..), including a vignette on the title, a cul-de-lampe, fifteen compositions in the text and seven hors texte. ONE OF THE 125 FIRST COPIES ON IMPERIAL JAPON, this one enriched with a special suite of illustrations, printed in bistre-brown on wove paper. A superb copy in a lined and mosaic binding by Semet et Plumelle. Spine very slightly faded.