Paris

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...

First edition for which there were no large paper copies.
Contemporary half brown sheep over marbled paper boards, spine in five compartments (slightly sunned), marbled pastedowns and endpapers.
Handsome autograph inscription by Guillaume Apollinaire.
Light spotting, principally to edges.