First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy. Spine slightly sunned with a small light stain at head, minute corner chip at foot of front cover. Autograph inscription signed by Alain Sergent to the great Céline scholar Pierre Monnier: "... ce portrait d'un farceur dont les imitateurs se prennent trop au sérieux..." ["... this portrait of a joker whose imitators take themselves too seriously..."]