The Temptation of the West. [Besançon], Les Bibliophiles comtois (Paris, Imprimerie nationale), 1962. In-folio, 185 [including the first 4 white] - (7 including the last 3 white) pp., Gray morocco, smooth spine, covers each decorated with 'a large polychrome and gilded mosaic composition, blue suede linings, purple suede guards, gilded edges, preserved covers and spine, gray morocco back shirt and flaps with lined case, both covered with a gray cork checkerboard - brown, back faded (Thérèse Moncey - Ch. Collet doreur).

Edition printed in only 170 copies on Arches vellum à la forme, nominative copy of Marcel Galland, master builder of this edition.
10 full-page LITHOGRAPHS BY ZAO WOU KI included in the pagination. VERY GOOD COPY, ENRICHED WITH 2 SUITES, ONE ON JAPAN AND THE OTHER ON ARCHES, EACH INCLUDING 10 SHEETS SIGNED BY THE ARTIST and a title printed on Arches.

These two suites were printed in only 20 copies. - A MENU ILLUSTRATED WITH A LITHOGRAPHY BY ZAO WOU KI, for the meal given on the occasion of the publication of this edition (4 pp.). - A letter signed by André Malraux to Marcel Galland: "This book, by its conception, its typography and its execution, seems to me ONE OF THE EXCITING SUCCESSES OF THE CONTEMPORARY EDITION".