Passionate Journey is Masereel’s wordless novel with a name change. Right after the war, a German title or the esoteric “My Book of Hours” would not have been a good marketing move.

  • Title: Passionate Journey
  • Author and Illustrator: Masereel, Frans
  • Forward by Romain Rolland
  • Introduction: Thomas Mann (translated from the German by Joseph M. Bernstein)
  • Date of publication: 1948
  • Publisher: Lear Publishing
  • Place of publication: New York
  • Printer:
  • Copyright: Artist?
  • Dimensions:
  • Dust jacket: Yes
  • slipcase: unlikely
  • Binding: hard cover
  • Language: English titles, etc
  • Paginated: unpaginated
  • Printed: verso and recto
  • Edition: Trade only
  • References:
  • Description: frontispiece; 8vo. 22pp of text with 165 full page reproduced woodcut illustrations on unnumbered leaves. Publisher’s tan cloth in dust jacket.
  • This edition deleted two image that were in the original. They depicted the hero urinating from the top of a building on pedestrians below in the street and a scene of fornication.
Photo credit: Bjarne Tokerud
Half title
Title page
Copyright page
Start of the Tomas Mann introduction (translated from German by Joseph Bernstein)
Frontis and epigraphs
Printed recto and verso

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