Journey to the End of the Night. [Translated from the original 'Voyage au bout de la nuit' by John Marks.] Céline (Louis-Ferdinand). Published by Chatto & Windus, 1934

Title: Journey to the End of the Night. [Translated...

Publisher: Chatto & Windus

Publication Date: 1934

Edition: First edition

Dust jacket condition: Upper & lower panels with edge wear and short tears. Spine torn at head & tail.

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 8vo. [viii], 543 printed pages. Lower edges untrimmed. Endpapers very slightly foxed.  14.5 x 22 cm. Original black cloth, white lettering to backstrip very slightly  rubbed.  Complete with rare photographic dust jacket by  ground-breaking Hungarian photographer, André Kertész. Upper & lower panels with edge wear, a couple of very tiny green spots, and short tears. Spine torn at head & tail. This is Celine's brilliant that, together his Death on the Instalment Plan, were his principal works and are among the masterpieces & greatest novels of the twentieth century, full of existential narrative and experimental language, a forerunner and an equal to James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. Not only an important book, and scarce in this edition but also with the rare dust jacket.