SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine de.
Wind, Sand and Stars.
New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1939.
$600.00
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Item Number: RRB-150722
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First Edition of Antoine Saint-Exupery's Wind, Sand and Stars
First edition of Saint-Exupery’s philosophical memoir of flight. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Decorations in color by John O'Hara Cosgrave II. Translated from the French by Lewis Galantiere. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
“Everything went into Wind, Sand and Stars: the Saharan flights and crashes; the South American flights and near-crashes; the Libyan adventure; Guillaumet in the Andes; the enchanted evenings… Combined-with a dash of mysticism and a generous sprinkling of hymns to fraternity-those writings make for some of the most glorious descriptions of flight ever published…. ‘To read it is to forget we are earthbound,’ raved the Atlantic reviewer” (Schiff, 306-8). The American Booksellers Association voted Wind, Sand and Stars the best non-fiction work of 1939 while the French version, Terre des hommes, received the Academie Francaise’s prize for best novel of the year.
Wind, Sand and Stars.
$600.00
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