SAINT-EXUPéRY, Antoine de.

Wind, Sand and Stars.

New York: Reynal and Hitchcock , 1939.

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First Edition of Antoine Saint-Exupéry's Wind, Sand and Stars

First British edition of Saint-Exupery’s philosophical memoir of flight. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Decorations in color by John O'Hara Cosgrave, II. Translated from the French by Lewis Galantière. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket which has been laminated. 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.