Voyage au bout de la nuit

First edition, one of 200 service de presse (advance) copies with service de presse printed on spine, without publisher's catalogue at rear. Very first issue printed even before deluxe copies.
Rare and precious signed and inscribed copy by Louis-Ferdinand Céline to writer and lyricist Henry Jagot, known as Raoul Tabosse and Frédéric Valade.
Very discreet restorations to top spine-end, head of joint and margins of the front cover.
Born in 1858, Henri Jagot was a cabaret and military songwriter, historian of the Great Wars, as well as a popular novelist and author of children's literature. Céline discovered his work during his early years. This inscription on one of the rare press copies of his first novel bears witness to an obvious literary complicity between Céline, inventor of literary slang, and Jagot, master of the colloquial language who inspired him.

Our copy is housed in a custom clamshell box signed by Julie Nadot reproducing the original cover and spine of the book.