Wind, sand and stars
by SAINT-EXUPÃRY, Antoine de
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann, [1939]. [8], 285pp, [1]. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Rubbed, a trifle cocked, dustwrapper chipped, several short tears, loss to lower panel. Decorated endpapers, scattered spotting. The first London edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's (1900-1944) highly-regarded memoir. Today predominantly remembered for his novella Le Petit Prince (1943), Saint-Exupéry made his name as an experienced and accomplished pioneer of aviation. The present work is primarily centred on an accident in 1935, in which the Frenchman narrowly escaped death after losing control of his aircraft and crashing in the Sahara Desert between Benghazi and Cairo. Saint-Exupéry and his navigator were left almost completely without sustenance and nearly died of thirst before their salvation came in the form of a wandering Bedouin. . First edition. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ25974
- Title
- Wind, sand and stars
- Author
- SAINT-EXUPÉRY, Antoine de
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [1939]
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Autobiography
Terms of Sale
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Antiquates Ltd was established by Tom Lintern-Mole in 2007; we travel far and wide to buy, sell, and advise on rare books and manuscripts.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
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Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
About the Seller
Antiquates Ltd
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Wareham, Dorset
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...