Louis-Ferdinand Celine — North

London, The Bodley Head , 1972. First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first UK edition of this powerful semi-autobiographical novel, based on Louis-Ferdinand Celine's escape from France to Denmark in the Second World War. First UK edition. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. Céline is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential French novelists of the 20th century, though he remains a controversial figure in France due to his antisemitism and activities during the Second World War.North, published the year before his death, describes his own personal migration when, accompanied by his wife, their cat Bebert and his actor friend Le Vigan, he escaped from France to Denmark after the invasion of Normandy in 1944. The novel gives vivid depictions of these experiences and serves as the last book Céline published during his lifetime. In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Dust wrapper is sunned to the spine, with marks to the wrap. Minor bump to the front panel top edge. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Very Good.