first edition Hardcover
1938 · Boston
by Celine, Louis-Ferdinand; John Marks [Translator]
Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. [viii], 593 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering, red topstain. Near Fine with former owner's name written on paste down in pencil in Very Good dust jacket with price intact ($2.75), worn and a little chipped along edges, spine panel dulled, wear spots to back panel. The French master of dark humor's second novel in its uncommon original dust jacket, featuring a blurb from none other than Leon Trotsky on the back panel.
(Inventory #: 140944798)