BALZAC (Honoré de). Une Passion dans le désert. Paris, Maxime Cottet-Dumoulin Éditeur, s. d. [1949]. In-4° leaves, in publisher's cover, folder and slipcase. Thirteen color etchings, including three on double page, and illuminated ornamentation after Paul JOUVE, engraved by Raymond HAASEN. Issued in an edition of 123 numbered copies on Arches vellum, some of which are collaborators' copies, this one, a collaborator's copy signed by the publisher and illustrator, containing an additional suite of etchings, unjustified. Enclosed: a trial proof in color and an additional state of two of the double illustrations.