Wind, Sand and Stars. Translated from the French by Lewis Galantiere.
Saint Exupery, Antoine de.
Verlag: New York, Reynal & Hitchcock., 1939
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First US Edition. 21 x 14 cm. 306 pages. Illustrated. Original decorated cloth. Black cloth spine with gilt title. Gilt title on front board. Decorated end papers. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Internally bright and clean. A nice copy - see images. Sprache: english. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 104242AB
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Titel: Wind, Sand and Stars. Translated from the ...
Verlag: New York, Reynal & Hitchcock.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1939
Einband: Hardcover
Auflage: 1. Auflage
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Wind, Sand and Stars Translated from the French by Lewis Galantière,
Verlag:
New York, Bantam Books, 1945
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Softcover
Anbieter: Antiquariat Liber Antiqua, Krems an der Donau, Österreich
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Decorations by John O H. Cosgrave II., 245 pages, Softcover, Taschenbuchformat, abgegriffen, verschmutzt, fleckig, Kanten und Ecken bestossen, schiefgelesen, Seiten gebräunt, fleckig, wellig, mittlerer Zustand, in Englisch Sprache: Englisch. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 54950
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Wind, Sand and Stars. Translated from the French by Lewis Galantière.
Verlag:
New York Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939
Gebraucht
Hardcover
Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Shapero Rare Books, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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First American edition; 8vo; double-page pictorial title, chapter headings and pictorial endpapers by John O'Hara Cosgrave, II, printed in blue & black; publisher's cloth-backed patterned boards, some loss to spine lettering, overall very good. The book recounts the author's experiences experiences as an aviator: 'Saint Exupéry in all he tells us speaks as one who has "been through it.' His personal contact with ever-recurrent danger seasons his book with an authentic and inimitable tang' (André Gide). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 99760
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Wind, Sand and Stars. Translated from the French by Lewis Galantiere.
Verlag:
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, 1939
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Erstausgabe
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Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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First edition in English, number 202 of 500 copies signed by the author. Saint-Exupéry's memoir of his experience as a pilot for the pioneering French aviation company Aéropostale chronicles his miraculous survival after the Sahara crash of 1935. This account later inspired The Little Prince, which begins with the pilot narrator stranded in the desert. The book was first published in France as Terre des hommes earlier the same year. This English edition was "translated, not from the edition published in France, but from a special version prepared for the American public. This special version omitted parts of the original edition, and included additions" (Miller & Fay, p. 300). The most marked difference between the two editions is the presence, in the English version, of an additional chapter titled "The Elements", recounting a flight along the Atlantic seaboard of the Patagonian Argentine. "This chapter was by no means written in the neat little hurricane in which it is said to have been: Saint-Exupéry worked and reworked these fourteen pages long after the rest of the book had fallen into place" (Schiff). This edition won the 1939 National Book Award for non-fiction in the United States (non-American authors were eligible before the war). Upon publication, the American writer and aviatrix Anne Morrow Lindbergh wrote a long analysis of the book titled "Adventurous Writing", first published in the Saturday Review and subsequently appended to later editions of the work. Lindbergh describes the book as "a story of adventure. it is life heightened to a gigantic scale with such adventures, such heroes. But it is heightened not because it is an adventure. It is heightened because it is poetry. And widened, not because of the immensity of the canvas - deserts, oceans, skies - but because of the author's mind. And deepened, not because of those canyons of air, those columns of light one is led through, but because of the plummet-awareness of a poet, which pierces, like a spear through man, the object of his attention, straight through to the heart of the world" (p. 8). Anne Lindberg, "Adventurous Writing", Saturday Review, 14 October 1939; John R. Miller & Eliot G. Fay, "Antoine de Saint Exupéry: A Bibliography", French Review, vol. 19, no. 5, 1946; Stacy Schiff, Saint-Exupéry. A Biography, 2011. Octavo. Original blue quarter leather on patterned woven silk boards, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, dark blue silk bookmarker. With the original blue card slipcase, printed gold label to the side. Double-page pictorial title printed in black and blue, similar headpieces to each chapter, all by John O'H Cosgrave II. Spine slightly faded and worn at ends, trivial spots of foxing on endpapers, contents bright and clean. A very good copy in the slipcase, extremities faded, short splits at edges, but sound. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 168164
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