• For Your Consideration:
• A (RARE) First US Paperback Edition Thus (Penguin Books) of:
• “NIGHT FLIGHT: A NOVEL”
(Northland Press, 1979) (Paperback, First Edition)
• BY ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY
• PREFACE BY ANDRÉ GIDE
• TRANSLATED BY STUART GILBERT
• “I admire this book not only on its literary merits but for its value as a record of actualities, and it is the unlikely combination of these two qualities which gives NIGHT FLIGHT its quite exceptional importance.”
—ANDRÉ GIDE, WINNER, 1947, NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
• “THE LITTLE PRINCE for grownups: a story about what one makes of an immense solitude…written by a remarkable man.”
—NICHOLAS LEZARD, THE GUARDIAN
• “SAINT-EXUPERY was a prophetic voice.”
—KIRKUS REVIEW
• “A saint in short, true to his name, flying up here at the right hand of God. The good SAINT-EX! And he was not the only one. He was merely the one who put it into words most beautifully and anointed himself before the altar of the right stuff.”
—TOM WOLFE in “THE RIGHT STUFF”
• “There are certain rare individuals…who by the mere fact of their existence put an edge on life, their ceaseless astonishment…awakening our own latent sense of renewal and expectation. No one ever stood out more conspicuously in this respect than the French aviator and author ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY.”
—NONA BALAKIAN, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
• “An astoundingly beautiful novel. SAINT-EXUPERY opens up the mystery of human flight and illuminates the extraordinary experience of being a pilot in the early days of aviation. On nearly any page of the novel, one finds passages of luminous beauty.”
—GIANNA WARD-VETRANO, THE UNBEARABLE BOOKISHNESS OF BLOGGING
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• For other details about this book, please see below.
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TITLE: “NIGHT FLIGHT: A Novel”
AUTHOR: ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY
PREFACE: ANDRE GIDE
TRANSLATOR: STUART GILBERT
TYPE: PAPERBACK
PAGES: 178
PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: PENGUIN BOOKS (New York), 1945
NOTE: This copy is NOT ex-library NOR a book-club edition.
ISBN: N/A (Pre-ISBN)
CONDITION OF WRAPS: VERY GOOD.
Paper-exposing scuffs at spine tips & corners. Long crease down center of back. Small paper-exposing scuff on bottom edge of back—and two along fore edge of front—all other wear along edges is minor. Imagery & text remain vivid.
CONDITION of BOOK ITSELF: VERY GOOD PLUS.
Book is square. Spine is TIGHT—quite an achievement for a paperback of this age—with light scuffing but no creasing. Text-block edges are inked red & have minor scratching but are otherwise fine. Endpapers are moderately age-toned but fine. Pages are also moderately also age-toned but the pages are also bright & clean—with no writing, no doodling, no tears, no stains, no foxing, etc. LOOKS UNREAD—for sure.
SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned and sturdy mailer. THANK YOU!
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