Robert DENOËL

First edition.
Rare copy presented in a full sand-colored cloth chemise, with a brown elastic band allowing closure of the chemise at the right margin of the covers.
Bookplate of a Céline bibliophile pasted on a pastedown.

Rare first edition.
Spine and boards marginally sunned, boards slightly soiled, one transverse fold on the front board.
Reading marks and pencil annotations by the dedicatee in margins of some leaves.
Autograph inscription signed by Robert Denoël to the Provençal writer, filmmaker and caricaturist Carlo Rim who was notably the friend of Fernandel, Raimu and Marcel Pagnol but also of Max Jacob.

First edition.

A light dampstain to margins of covers having also affected all leaves at their feet, three minute corner lacks to covers.

Rare but in this condition.

First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy, there were only 20 pur fil paper large paper copies.
Small angular lacks to head of final leaves, ex-dono in biro on top of title page.