Voyage au bout de la nuit

First edition on ordinary paper with all the features of the first printing. Including the publisher's band with minor tears and slightly sunned at the central fold. Complete with the publisher's catalogue at the end. 

An exceptionally fresh copy, preserved with its rare red publisher's band quoting Molly's phrase "C'est le voyageur solitaire qui va le plus loin", followed by this text on the verso:

One should not be misled by the tone of this extraordinary novel and take Journey to the End of the Night for a pamphlet by the violence of its sarcasm as well as its ever-present and particularly ferocious satire. The author aims to create a very faithful image of urban man with all his implied complexity, richness, and contradictions. In this book of prodigious variety and vividness, he has no other ambition than to approach life: unprejudiced minds will have to bow before the integrity of his testimony".

From December 1932, copies would bear a new band printed on green paper: "Un formidable / succès / Prix Théophraste Renaudot".