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Robert DENOEL & Louis-Ferdinand CELINE Apologie de Mort à Crédit followed by "Hommage à Emile Zola" by Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Original edition Denoël & Steele, Paris, 1936, paperback. 13.5 x 20.5 cm. Good condition.

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Robert DENOEL & Louis-Ferdinand CELINE Apologie de Mort à Crédit followed by "Hommage à Emile Zola" by Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Original edition Denoël & Steele, Paris, 1936, paperback. 13.5 x 20.5 cm. Good condition.

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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).

Lot 209

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.

Lot 212

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.

Lot 64

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

CÉLINE (Louis-Ferdinand). Mort à crédit. Novel. Paris : Denoël et Steele, [1936]. - In-8, 219 x 144 : 697 pp, (1 blank f.), printed cover. Paperback. 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). As stated at the beginning of the book: "At the request of the publishers, L.-F. Céline has removed several sentences from his book, but they have not been replaced. They appear as blanks in the book." 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). One of 790 numbered copies on Alpha, this being one of only 750 sold. Small tears on the edges of the cover, otherwise a very well preserved, largely uncut copy.

Robert DENOEL & Louis-Ferdinand CELINE Apologie de Mort à Crédit followed by "Hommage à Emile Zola" by Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Original edition Denoël & Steele, Paris, 1936, paperback. 13.5 x 20.5 cm. Good condition.

Robert DENOEL & Louis-Ferdinand CELINE Apologie de Mort à Crédit followed by "Hommage à Emile Zola" by Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Original edition Denoël & Steele, Paris, 1936, paperback. 13.5 x 20.5 cm. Good condition.

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.

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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