PIGNON (Édouard). COURTADE Pierre - Les circonstances, Nouvelles. New edition illustrated by Pignon. S.l. (Paris), les Éditeurs français réunis, s.d. (1954). In-8, leaves, 232 pp, [1] p., [3} ff. (the last blank), in paper-folded cover illustrated with a color lithograph by Edouard Pignon, and hardback cover and slipcase. One of the first forty copies numbered in Roman numerals from I to XL, and one of the first fifty on Arches vellum. Dedication by the author and illustrator to the famous collector Camille Renault, dated October 30, 1954. An exceptional copy, enriched with six pages (five at the beginning, one at the end) of sumptuous original pencil sketches by Édouard Pignon, in addition to the ten hors-texte illustrations announced in the justification.