CÉLINE (DESTOUCHES Louis Ferdinand dit). Quinine in therapeu - Lot 113

CÉLINE (DESTOUCHES Louis Ferdinand dit). Quinine in therapeutics. Famous and first real publication by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, who had just graduated from medical school. Paris, O. Doin, [1924]. In-8 (155x115mm), paperback. 138pp [3ff. including publisher's catalog]. Spine (muted) slightly oiled, otherwise very good condition. First edition, for which no large papers were printed. Published by Céline under his real name, Louis Destouches, on a self-publishing basis, this work closely follows "La Vie et l'OEuvre de Philippe Ignace Semmelweis", a medical thesis defended by the writer in May 1924. With a print run of 5,800 copies, and reissued the following year, it seems to have been commissioned by the League of Nations, for whom he was working at the time. Written in a purely scientific, rather impersonal style, one would struggle to find in it the literary genius in germ that would give rise to "Voyage" in 1932. Enclosed: a rare propaganda leaflet from the "Bureau pour l'encouragement à l'emploi de la quinine".