![]() The reviews were glowing… Night Flight is a battle with the elements on a scale with The Old Man and the Sea… On both sides of the ocean Saint-Exupéry was hailed as a classicist… In 1932, when the novel was published in America, it was greeted as ‘an enduring modern classic’… the best description of flight in print, a distinction it arguably holds still today” (Schiff, 205, 210). “ 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. ![]() Small octavo, original buff paper self-wrappers.įirst edition in English, first printing, of Saint-Exupéry’s second novel, 1931 winner of France’s Prix Femina. “IF ONLY YOU PUNISH MEN ENOUGH, THE WEATHER WILL IMPROVE”: FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF SAINT-EXUPÉRY NIGHT FLIGHT: “THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF FLIGHT IN PRINT” ![]()
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