Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE

First edition on ordinary paper. Half cherry-red morocco over marbled paper boards by P. Goy & C. Vilaine, spine in six compartments, gilt date to foot of spine, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, covers and spine preserved.
Autograph inscription from Louis-Ferdinand Céline to Françoise Fontaine "... hommage à la beauté (réputée) [in homage to the (well-known) beauty]."
With folding frontispiece.
A very good copy in a nice binding, complete with a part of its advertising label, mounted on guards. 

First edition on ordinary paper with all the characteristics of the first issue.
Spine lightly sunned at head and foot, insignificant clear dampstain to margins of first gathering.

Later edition.
Autograph inscription signed by Louis-Ferdinand Céline to Francis Planque : "... au réalisateur courageux et malheureux...[to the courageous and unhappy director…]"
Tiny wormholes to upper cover, a pale marginal dampstain to head of lower cover. 

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on alfa paper, this one of the few nominative hors commerce copies, printed specially for Jean Ballard, the only large paper copies with 10 on Arches paper, also nominative.

Handsome autograph inscription from Louis-Ferdinand Céline to Jean Ballard, director of Cahiers du Sud, which published extracts from Voyage just before its publication, as well as one of the longest reviews devoted to the work.

Few people recognized at first the importance of this debut novel. Céline pitched the manuscript to Gallimard, Bossart, Figuière and of course Denoël, who were the only ones to show any real enthusiasm. Nonetheless, they printed only...

First edition on ordinary paper, false mention of the thirtieth edition.
Elegant half maroon morocco over marbled paper boards by P. Goy & C. Vilaine, spine in six compartments, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, covers and spine (sunned) preserved, top edge gilt.
Autograph inscription by Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
A very good copy, nicely bound. 

Published in the same year as the first.
Red morocco binding by Patrice Goy, spine in six compartments with date at foot, marbled endpapers, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, slipcase trimmed with red morocco, marbled paper boards.
Inscribed by Louis-Ferdinand Céline to the movie maker Abel Gance: “à mon ami Abel Gance fidèle dans un voyage autour de tout. LF Destouches [To my friend Abel Gance, faithful in our voyage around everything. LF Destouches].”
A few marginal reader's marks in pencil at end.
A friend of Gance's since 1917, Céline bore him a deep admiration: “In a hundred years, so much more of your films will remain than of my big funerary...