Null 59. GEN-PAUL, CELINE (Louis-Ferdinand)

Death on credit. Denoël,Paris, 1942…

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59. GEN-PAUL, CELINE (Louis-Ferdinand) Death on credit. Denoël,Paris, 1942. Red half-maroquin with corners, spine decorated with an iron representing a cat and the letter T for Chatté at the tail of the spine, gilt head, covers and spine preserved. gilt head, untrimmed, covers and spine preserved. (Huser) Precious copy of Obert Chatté, one of the 12 ex. on tinted vellum, very enriched. a) Autograph mention: "This copy has been enhanced by my hand Gen-Paul 42". b) Autograph letter from Céline. c) Autograph letter from Gen-Paul. d) A signed drawing by Gen-Paul. e) The copy has been enriched with loose leaves on which the redacted text has been restored. A fine copy, despite minor flaws, in a contemporary binding.

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59. GEN-PAUL, CELINE (Louis-Ferdinand) Death on credit. Denoël,Paris, 1942. Red half-maroquin with corners, spine decorated with an iron representing a cat and the letter T for Chatté at the tail of the spine, gilt head, covers and spine preserved. gilt head, untrimmed, covers and spine preserved. (Huser) Precious copy of Obert Chatté, one of the 12 ex. on tinted vellum, very enriched. a) Autograph mention: "This copy has been enhanced by my hand Gen-Paul 42". b) Autograph letter from Céline. c) Autograph letter from Gen-Paul. d) A signed drawing by Gen-Paul. e) The copy has been enriched with loose leaves on which the redacted text has been restored. A fine copy, despite minor flaws, in a contemporary binding.

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Estim. 30 000 - 40 000 EUR

CÉLINE (Louis-Ferdinand). Mort à crédit. Novel. Paris : Denoël et Steele, [1936]. - In-8, 219 x 145 : 697 pp, (1 blank), printed cover. Jansenist black morocco, ribbed spine, black morocco lining and endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, black morocco spine and cover bands folder, lined with white calf, lined case (Huser). Dauphin & Fouché, 36A1. - Boudrot, n° 183. First edition dedicated to Lucien Descaves. In this famous novel, Louis-Ferdinand Céline recounts with rage and vigor his childhood haunted by poverty. "The public discovers the author's childhood and adolescence, prey to human misery and pettiness, through the vicissitudes and hopeless destiny of Ferdinand Bardamu, the son of shopkeepers, testing, among other places, the passage Choiseul, renamed "des Bérésinas", asserting that for little people, life is only death on credit" (Boudrot, Bibliographie des éditions Denoël et Steele, no. 183). Despite its public success, the novel was immediately panned by the critics. Two months later, Robert Denoël had to publish a defense of the book under the title Apologie de Mort à crédit, in which he "opposes the judgment of the elites to the good taste of readers" (Boudrot, ibidem, p. 128). At the head of the book is this disclaimer: "At the request of the publishers, L.-F. Céline has deleted several sentences from his book; the sentences have not been replaced. They appear as blanks in the book. ONLY CERTAIN OUT OF COMMERCE EDITIONS HAVE THE UNCENSORED TEXT, ONE OF WHICH IS ONE OF 22 OUT OF COMMERCE ON IMPERIAL JAPON (No. XXI), the first paper with 25 other censored copies in circulation. It was offered to the Belgian collector Charles Hayoit (1901-1984), enriched with this signed autograph dispatch: A monsieur // Charles Hayoit // En toute amitié // LF Céline A superb copy in a triple binding by Georges Huser (1879-1961), produced at the time for Charles Hayoit. It is complete with a Japanese folio listing the "Passages supprimés dans tous les exemplaires", typed in red and black. Provenance: Charles Hayoit, with author's consignment and bookplate (V, 2005, no. 178).

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

CÉLINE (Louis-Ferdinand). Mort à crédit. Novel. Paris : Denoël et Steele, [1936]. - In-8, 214 x 140 : 697 pp, (1 blank f.), printed cover. Orange morocco, spine with large central rib including author's name, title and year in gilt lettering and numerals, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (modern binding). First edition. One of 790 numbered copies on Alpha, this being one of 750 placed on the market (no. 537), with the passages removed at the request of the publishers. Cover slightly soiled, otherwise a fine copy in modern binding.

Estim. 500 - 800 EUR

CELINE (Louis-Ferdinand). L'Eglise. Paris, Denoël et Steele, 1933. In-12, black half-chagrin with corners, smooth spine, gilt head, covers and spine (modern binding). First edition. Press copy, with a. s. dispatch to a Polish music-hall dancer friend, Ira Luceganska. Small bookplate. Mottling.

Estim. 500 - 800 EUR

CELINE (Louis-Ferdinand). Voyage au bout de la nuit. Paris, Denoël, 1942. In-8, black bradel paper imitating wood, smooth spine, covers and spine preserved (Goy et Vilaine). First illustrated edition, by Gen Paul. One of 270 copies on Alfa, 2nd paper. Slight damage to head cover.

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