SAINT-EXUPERY. Wind, Sand and Stars. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, LIMITED EDITION. SIGNED BY SAINT-EXUPERY. [With:] -- Night Flight. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, FIRST PRINTING.
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SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine de (1900-1944). Wind, Sand and Stars. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939.
8vo. Original quarter blue calf, blue-and-white patterned cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut (some chipping and minor staining); original board slipcase (some wear).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, number 43 of 500 copies SIGNED BY SAINT-EXUPERY. Saint-Exupery's memoirs recall his early flights, first as a mail carrier pilot in the Sahara and Libya, and later in South America and Spain. Saint-Exupery disappeared on a flight over the Mediterranean in 1944.
[With:] SAINT-EXUPERY. Night Flight. Stuart Gilbert, translator. New York & London: The Century Co., 1932.8vo. Publisher’s original blue cloth pictorial stamped in navy and gilt, (some spotting to upper edge, some light rubbing; in original dustjacket (price-clipped, some chipping, some light toning). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, FIRST PRINTING of Saint-Exupery's second novel which won the Prix Femina in 1931.
Property from the Annette Perlman Trust
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