CÉLINE (Louis-Ferdinand). Death on credit. Novel. Paris : Denoël et Steele, [1936]. - In-8, 218 x 139 : 697 pp, (1 blank page), printed cover. Jansenist black morocco, spine ribbed, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, slipcase (modern binding). Boudrot, Bibliographie des éditions Denoël et Steele, n° 183. First edition dedicated to Lucien Descaves . In this famous novel, Louis-Ferdinand Céline tells with rage and vigor his childhood haunted by poverty. "The public discovers the childhood and adolescence of the author in prey to the miseries and human pettiness through the vicissitudes and the hopeless destiny of the son of shopkeepers Ferdinand Bardamu, to the test, among other places, of the passage Choiseul, renamed "of the Beresinas", asserting that for the small people the life is only death on credit" (Boudrot, Bibliography of the Denoël and Steele editions, n° 183). As indicated at the beginning of the book: "At the request of the publishers, L.-F. Céline has deleted several sentences from his book, the sentences have not been replaced. ONE OF 110 COPIES ON PURE WIRE VELIN, this being one of 85 on this paper in the trade, numbered in Arabic numerals . A good copy in a modern unsigned binding.