His first book and "The best description of flight in print"
Night Flight.
New York: The Century Co, 1932.
Price: $250.00
About the item
First American edition. Preface by André Gide. Translated by Stuart Gilbert. [xvi], 198 pp. 8vo. His first book and "The best description of flight in print" Original blue cloth stamped in gilt and black, dust jacket. Slight rubbing to covers, some minor wear to extremities, still an attractive copy. Ownership signature to front pastedown.
Item #323451
First edition in English of Saint-Exupéry's second novel and 1931 winner of France's Prix Femina.
"Night Flight... the novel he had written on scraps of mismatched paper all over South America and whittled down to 180 pages on the Riviera that spring, was published in Paris in October 1931. Ther reviews were glowing... On both sides of the ocean Saint-Exupery was hailed as a classicist..." (Schiff, 205, 210).
