CÉLINE (Louis-Ferdinand). D'un château l'autre. Novel. Paris : Gallimard, [1957]. - In-8, 207 x 140 : 313 pp, (1 f.), printed cover. Paperback, Dauphin & Fouché, 57A1. First edition of this novel forming the first part of the "German trilogy", to be followed by Nord (1960) and Rigodon (1969). "D'un château l'autre could be called "the end of the night". The castles of which Céline speaks are indeed painful, stirred by spectres called War, Hatred, Misery. Céline shows himself to be a castle-dweller three times: at Sigmaringen, in the company of Marshal Pétain and his ministers; in Denmark, where he spent eighteen months in a dungeon, then a few years in a dilapidated farmhouse; and finally in Meudon, where his clientele as a doctor was reduced to a few poor people, as miserable as himself. It is, however, as much a novel as a confession, for Céline was not made for objectivity" (Éditions Gallimard arguments). One of 158 copies on Lafuma-Navarre vellum pur fil (no. 80), the second paper after 45 on Hollande Van Gelder vellum. Non-missing tear on the edge of the leaf on pages 159-160, due to clumsy use of the paper-cutter.