L'église

First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on pur fil paper, from the deluxe issue, preceded by 10 copies on Japanese paper and 20 on Holland paper.
Endpapers very slightly and partially darkened, of no consequence.
A rare and attractive copy, complete with the folding photographic frontispiece depicting the Unknown Woman of the Seine.
Céline's only published theatrical work, written in 1926, six years before Journey to the End of the Night, to which it may be regarded as a prelude. The character of Bardamu already makes his appearance here, working as a doctor for the League of Nations in Cameroon before travelling to the United States and Switzerland, and eventually returning to the working-class suburbs of Paris to devote himself once more to caring for the poor. The play was rejected by Gallimard.