Death on the Installment Plan by Céline, Louis Ferdinand [pseudonym of Louis Ferdinand Destouches] translated from the French by John H. P. Marks, introduction by Milton Hindus - 1947

New York: New Directions Modern Readers, 1947. Hardcover. [ix] 593p., introduction, foxing to edges, ownership name, light shelfwear, first printing of this reissue in plum cloth boards and unclipped edgeworn and rubbed dj. The Modern Readers Series. Originally published in the US in 1938 by Little, Brown this is the Modern Readers Series reissue from about 1947. Céline's follow-up to "Journey Into Night" Both novels are semi-autobiographical and it is said (John Banville for one) that without Céline there would have been no Beat Generation, no Kerouac or Bukowski or Miller. Not in Young as the earlier book is.Trotsky rave on rear panel.