Wind, Sand and Stars
SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine de.
Wind, Sand and Stars
First Edition of Antoine Saint-Exupery's Wind, Sand and Stars
New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1939.
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First edition of Saint-Exupery’s philosophical memoir of flight. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Decorations in color by John O’Hara Cosgrave II. Translated from the French by Lewis Galantiere. 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.
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