Céline (Louis-Ferdinand) - Bagatelles Pour Un Massacre [numéroté sur papier Alfa] - 1937

Céline (Louis-Ferdinand).
Bagatelles For A Massacre.
Paris, Éditions Denoël, 1937 (1938 on the back).
Grand octavo, paperback, original cream-colored cover printed in red and black, spine bearing the mention “Exemplaire sur alfa”.

Original Edition. One of 400 copies numbered on Alfa paper, No. 226, among the copies placed on the market, from a total edition of 573 numbered copies, of which 73 are hors commerce.

Important and sadly famous antisemitic pamphlet by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, a major document for the French literary and ideological history of the interwar period. Published in December 1937, the work occupies a singular and controversial place in the writer’s oeuvre.

Copy preserved in its original binding, with its publisher’s cover. Cover browned, spine creased and rubbed, minor wear to the heads and corners.

The date of 1938 printed on the back is characteristic of the original print run and does not indicate a reissue.

Bibliographic reference: Dauphin & Fouché, Bibliography of Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Writings, 37A1.