CÉLINE (Louis-Ferdinand). Mea culpa followed by the life and work of Semmelweis. Paris: Denoël et Steele, [1937]. - In-16, paperback. Dauphin & Fouché, 36A2. - Boudrot, 210. First edition of Mea culpa, the first of Céline's pamphlets on his conception of communism, followed by the second edition, but first trade, of the author's medical thesis on the life and work of the Hungarian obstetrician Ignace Semmelweis (1818-1865), with an unpublished preface. One of 125 copies on esparto, this being one of 100 placed in trade. Rousseurs.