Louis-Ferdinand Céline / Gen Paul - Voyage au bout de la nui - 1942

CELINE, Louis-Ferdinand. Voyage au bout de la nuit. New edition with 15 drawings by Gen-Paul.

Paris, Denoël, 1942.
8vo (22 x 14 cm), 384 pp., purple cloth binding, smooth spine adorned with the title in gilt framed.

First dust jacket preserved.
Pages browned as often.

This edition, published ten years after the original, is illustrated by 15 black drawings by Eugène Paul.
Two manuscript ex-libris.

Good copy.

Eugène Paul, called Gen Paul, born July 2, 1895 in Paris and died April 30, 1975 in the same city, is a French painter, draftsman, burin engraver, and lithographer, an expressionist.

Friend of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Gen Paul is an autodidact, sometimes reductively described as a 'Montmartre painter'.