October Nights. Paris, Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1920.
In-8, 2 ff.n.ch., frontispiece, pp. 10-79, 2 ff.n.ch.: soft midnight blue velvet binding, Jansenist, blue cloth lining and endpapers, palladium head, untrimmed, cover and spine, slipcase (contemporary binding).
Frontispiece with a portrait of the author in medallion, a vignette on the title and another at the head, a cul-de-lampe and 14 full-page figures, all drawn and engraved on copper by Démétrios Galanis.
Edition of 412 copies on Lafuma-Navarre pure wire paper, this one one of the 400 numbered in Arabic numerals.
Sober soft velvet binding, lined with blue cloth with an unbleached stripe, made for the couturier Paul Poiret (1879-1944).
Poiret, who began his career with Jacques Doucet before joining the House of Charles Worth, opened his own workshop in the 1900s and became one of the greatest couturiers of the Art Deco period.
Although unsigned, the binding can be attributed to Simone Saintu, a childhood friend of Louis-Ferdinand Céline with whom she corresponded during the First World War. We know other bindings of the same facture, signed and made by this practitioner for the library of Paul Poiret.
Damaged case.
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