Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Flight To Arras. Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942.
Price: US$3.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Translated by Lewis GalantiereReynal & Hitchcock Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.
Seller: Library House Internet Sales, Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$8.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Blue hardcover book with gilt lettering to spine and front. Pictorial endpapers. 255 pages. Bumps and rubs to corners, edges and spine ends. Pages tanned. No marks. Binding tight.
Seller: Shadetree Rare Books, Chatham, VA, U.S.A.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de. Flight To Arras. Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover in exgeworn & price-clipped dust jacket
Seller: Ridge Road Sight And Sound, North Arlington, NJ, U.S.A.
De Saint-Exupery, Antoine. Flight to Arras. Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942.
Price: US$12.61 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de.. Flight to Arras.. N.Y:Reynal Hitchcock. 1942. Hardcover., 1942.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: 1st. ed. v.g. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.
Seller: Frederick Bayoff Literary Books, Adrian, MI, U.S.A.
SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine de. Flight To Arras. Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1942.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Second edition. Good plus. Front free endpapers/minor stain to cover. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Exupery, Antoine de Saint. FLIGHT TO ARRAS. , 1942.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: 1942 Exupery, Antoine de Saint FLIGHT TO ARRAS Translated Lewis Galantiere NY: Reynal & Hitchcock, c1942 255pp Illustrated Bernard Lamotte 8vo Blue cloth stamped in gold Light discoloration on spine, near fine hardcover.
Seller: Columbia Books, ABAA/ILAB, MWABA, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de. Flight to Arras. Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1942.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue cloth boards, illustrated endpapers, deckled edges. Minor soiling and sunning on the boards, ex-libris plate affixed to the front paste down. Heavily chipped and edge worn jacket, two stains on the back panel, sunned spine. Strong binding and clean text.
Seller: Else Fine Booksellers, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
De Saint-Exupery, Antoine. Flight to Arras. Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1942.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The recollections of the author of a French photography sortie carried out a 33,000' in defiance of the German fighter planes during May 19408vo, 255pp, blue cloth with gilt titles. Dust jacket sunned on spine, chipped and priced at $2.75. Cloth a bit marked.
Seller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Saint Exupery, Antoine de. Flight to Arras. Reynal and Hitchcock, New York, 1942.
Price: US$22.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. 255 pages. Hardcover with a mauve pictorial dust jacket. The jacket is worn and has a large chip at the top of the spine on the front hinge, also affecting the title. Jacket spine is sunned. Illustrated endpapers. An inscription on second front flyleaf. Text is toned but generally clean.
Seller: Pages Past--Used & Rare Books, Greensboro, NC, U.S.A.
de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine. Flight to Arras. Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 255p. Warm pages are unmarked with deckle edges and a few b/w illustrations. Bound in blue cloth with bumped corners and a sunned spine. Binding is tight, hinges are secure. Name penned on bottom of half-title. Lacks a jacket. Colorful endpages are illustrated.
Seller: Chamblin Bookmine, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.
SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine de.. Flight to Arras.. Reynal & Hitchcock,, NY:, 1942.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Translated from the French by Lewis Galantiere. No statement of printing. Very good in a very good (faded along the spine, minor edge wear, upper corner of front flap is clipped) dust jacket.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine De. FLIGHT TO ARRAS. Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942.
Price: US$26.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue cloth binding lightly rubbed. Binding tight and straight, inner pages clean and unmarked. Blue pictorial endpapers. ; 8.40 X 6 X 1.40 inches
Seller: Books on the Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$27.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 255 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt, Illustrated Endpapers. First Printing. Very Good +, Light Usage, Gilt Bright, Ink Last Name On First Front Free Blank Endpaper, Some Fading To Spine Cloth.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
de Saint-Exupery, Antoine. Flight to Arras. Reynal & Hitchcock New York 1942, 1942.
Price: US$31.00 + shipping
Description: reprint orig. cloth Very Good octavo 160pp., Classic Aviation Novel. Boards rather faded o/w internally nice copy of the fourth printing
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
de Saint-Exupery, Antoine. Flight to Arras. Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1942.
Price: US$33.59 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, illus endpapers. b&w plates, pp 255. The dustjacket has been repaired and protected: the spine of the d.j. is a colour facsimile, the rest original. Previous owner's bookplate and inscription blank endpaper, newspaper review tipped in to blank rear endpaper preceding illus endpaper. 2nd US printing. Very good condition. Describes one evening of fighting in the air from the perspective of the French pilot, May 1940.
Seller: Muir Books -Robert Muir Old & Rare Books - ANZAAB/ILAB, PERTH, WA, Australia
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Omnibus collection of Saint-Exupery's aviation books: Wind, Sand and Stars, Night Flight, & Flight to Arras. Early printing, published in the same year as the first edition. Basically crisp and clean, with owner's discreet name, in blue cloth boards. Covered with a jacket that is made from remnants of the original and is a partial reproduction, with $3.50 price.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
de Saint-Exupery, Antoine.. Flight to Arras. Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1942.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 5600 shelf. Blue cloth. Stamped info on front illus. endpaper & half-title pg, clean text. Lightly chipped dust jacket w/ light-struck spine panel, front corner flap clipped, $2.75 price printed bottom. Trans. by L. Galantiere. Solid. 255 pgs. 255 p.
Seller: Gil's Book Loft, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition Second Printing (February 1942) in original $2.75-priced dust jacket, no markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages bright & unfoxed, jacket rubbed with chipping to edges & fade to spine (titles legible), minor foxing to board & page block edges, else clean tight nice very early printing of the First Edition; 8vo; 255pp illus; color illus endpapers
Seller: Nighttown Books, South Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Flight to Arras. NY: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942.
Price: US$39.23 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: first printing of the first American edition; 255 pp., original blue cloth (hardcover), remnants of a book plate to the front paste down, else fine in an edge-worn dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.
Seller: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
de Saint-Exupery, Antoine. Flight to Arras. Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942.
Price: US$41.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original blue gilt cloth with illustrated endpapers. A clean, bright, handsome copy.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Flight to Arras. Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942.
Price: US$44.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, Second Printing, stated March 1942. Published by Reynal and Hitchcock, 1942. Octavo. Blue cloth boards stamped in gold. Book is very good with some pencil underlining throughout. Slight spone lean. Some fading along edges. Dust jacket is very good with significant shelf wear and some small tears. Illustrated by Bernard Lamotte. 255 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ships with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.
Seller: Southampton Books, Southampton, NY, U.S.A.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine De. Flight to Arras. Reynal and Hitchcock, 1942.
Price: US$46.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover has some edge and corner wear. Pages are tight and clean. No noticed markings. Overall good condition. ;
Seller: Confetti Antiques & Books, Spanish Fork, UT, U.S.A.
De Saint-Exupery, Antoine. Airman's Odyssey. Reynal, USA, 1942.
Price: US$51.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Trilogy comprising Wind Sand and Stars, Night Flight, and Flight To Arras. pp437. DW in archival sleeve. Usual library marks.
Seller: Anytime Books, London, United Kingdom
de Saint-Exupery, Antoine. Flight to Arras. Reynal & Hitchcock, NY, 1942.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A bright, tight edition translated from the French by Lewis Galantiere. DJ is not price clipped; colorful w/light soil & rubbing from handling; sunned spine; 1" tears at spine head & rear flap; some nicking; protected in mylar. Text is firmly bound; bumps to spine ends; clean, unmarked pages; po's signature on early blank page.
Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery. FLIGHT TO ARRAS. Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1942.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 255 pages. (1942). Translated from the French by Lewis Galantiere. Illustrated by Bernard Lamotte. Dust jacket shows wear at the edges with one small closed tear, 1", on back panel; spine faded. Very good in a price clipped dust jacket (097)
Seller: Colorado Pioneer Books, Centennial, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: General surface and edge wear to the cover. Pages show reader wear. Previous owner's name inside. The binding has a slight tilt. Pages show reader wear. Binding is still tight and pages are secure. Discoloration to the dust jacket. Dust jacket has several small edge tears and missing pieces. Dust jacket in a mylar cover. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.
Seller: The Book Garden, Bountiful, UT, U.S.A.
Saint Exupery, Antoine. Airman's Odyssey. Reynal & Hitchcock, Inc., 1942.
Price: US$89.27 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. PON to FEP, otherwise a VG copy in a VG dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. Collects Wind, Sand and Stars, Night Flight and Flight to Arras. Scarce.
Seller: AcornBooksNH, New Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
De Saint Exupery, Antoine. AIRMAN'S ODYSSEY. Reynal & Hitchcock, NEW YORK, 1942.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Omnibus collection of St. Exupery's aviation books, including: Wind, Sand & Stars, Night Flight, & Flight to Arras. A lovely, collectible copy in terra-cotta colored cloth boards with silver gilt lettering, covered in a barely worn jacket with price covered by a nostalgic christmas sticker. Contents clean & unmarked . Scarce in this condition.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de. Airman's Odyssey. Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942. 8 vo. 437 pp. First edition thus - comprised of Wind, Sand and Stars, Night Flight, and Flight to Arras. Orange boards with silver titles to the spine. The price-intact jacket (3.00) has some edgewear, toning to the extremities and to the spine - very good.
Seller: Paul Johnson Fine Books, IOBA, Temecula, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good first US edition. Slight overall wear but still square, binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Jacket has wear with chipping and small closed tears to the edges. Minor loss to top of spine and wear to extremities. Previous owner's name in pen to front end paper. Top corner of front flap clipped but price of $2.75 printed on bottom corner of flap. The story of St. Exupery's reconnaissance flight over the town of Arras carried out in late May 1940. Brilliant illustrations by Bernard Lamotte.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
De Saint-Exupery, Antoine. Flight to Arras. Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1942.
Price: US$100.10 + shipping
Description: Minor chipping to head and heel of spine.
Seller: Gumshoe Books, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$142.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ; Navy cloth cover is turned in at spince caps and rubbed at edges but clean and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and pristine. Dust jacket is worn with light fraying at extremities but clean and bright. Publisher's price of $2.75 on DJ flap. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. )
Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.
SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine De. Flight to Arras (Review Copy). Reynal & Hitchcock, NY, 1942.
Price: US$156.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Bound in blue cloth stamped in gold. A Review Copy of the first U.S. edition of this novel by the author of "The Little Prince" with slip laid in. Sans dustwrapper. Tight, clean copy with no discernible flaws.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de. Flight to Arras. New York Reynal & Hitchcock 1942., 1942.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A nice copy in dust jacket of this uncommon first edition.
Seller: Black Dog Books, Emerson, NJ, U.S.A.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Flight to Arras. Reynal & Hitchcock Inc., New York, 1942.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: 22 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 255pp. Blue cloth in dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers and additional illustrations by Bernard Lamotte. First American edition with same date on title and copyright page and no additional printings noted. Dust jacket spine is faded. Front flap of jacket clipped, original price of $2.75 still present at bottom. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Nice copy of this uncommon work. From the jacket flap: "Flight to Arras is Antoine de Saint-Exupery's "recollection in tranquillity" of those final shattering days of May, 1940, when, though defeat was certain, the fliers of France, pitifully few though they were, fought on. The framework of this book is a single evening's action - a photography sortie carried out at 33,000 feet in defiance of the german fighter planes, followed by an observation flight at 2,000 feet over the German tank parks around burning Arras, within range of every calibre of German anti-aircraft battery." Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Flight to Arras. Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942.
Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Fourth Printing. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards are heavily faded, corners lightly bumped and spine lightly cocked. Size: 6 1/2 x 8
Seller: Adagio Books, Longmont, CO, U.S.A.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de. Flight to Arras. Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1942.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing. Top of front flyleaf clipped but $2.75 price present at the bottom. Spine of dustjacket is lightly faded. There is very light wear to corners and top of spine. Book is square with clean pages that have no marks of any kind. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box.
Seller: Cahill Rare Books, Mission Viejo, CA, U.S.A.
de Saint-Exupery, Antoine. Flight to Arras. Reynal & Hitchcock - New York, 1942.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Blue cloth boards with gilt titling to spine and front. Book is tight, square, sharp-cornered and free of markings or flaws inside and out. Beautiful illustrated endpapers along with multiple other b/w illustrations by Bernard Lamotte. Translated by Lewis Galantiere. Unclipped Dust Jacket shows original price of First Printing - $2.75. and has bright colors all around, with the spine moderately faded. Edges are unusually free of scuffing, chips or shelfwear. Two small repaired tears, to top of rear and very small one to top of flap. Based on one of Saint-Exupery's 1940 reconnaissance missions, "Arras is a deeply personal book. Conceived as a volume on the fall of France, Flight to Arras was a war book by the time it was published. It won raves on both counts. It was universally thought to dwarf all other accounts of the French defeat; writing in the Atlantic Edward Weeks declared, 'This narrative and Churchill's speeches stand as the best answer the democracies have yet found to Mein Kampf" 1st/1st
Seller: Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$232.03 + shipping
Description: In-8, 22 cm, 255pp., illustr., gardes et hors-texte, reliure pleine toile de l'editeur, titre dore sur le premier plat, etiquette ex-libris - Barnesville 1942, toile emeraude fanee, Nb-0284,
Seller: Books+, Saint Maurice, France
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Flight to Arras. Reynal et Hitchcock, 1942.
Price: US$386.71 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Edition de 1942. Second printing February. Exemplaire toilé bleu sous jaquette illustrée. Couleur de la toile un peu passée, jaquette élimée. Envoi autographe de l'illustrateur, Bernard Lamotte On joint quelques photos de la maison ou était installé l'atelier de Bernard Lamotte et deux photocopies d'articles concernant le séjour de Saint-Exupéry à cet endroit.
Seller: Hubert Colau, La Bazoche gouet, France
SAINT-EXUPERY (Antoine de.). Flight to Arras. Reynal & Hitchcock Sans date (1942), New York, 1942.
Price: US$487.26 + shipping
Description: 1 volume. In-8. 255 pp. Reliure d'éditeur pleine toile bleue. Titre doré sur le plat supérieur. Jolies gardes illustrées. Non rogné. Sans la jaquette. En bon état. ÉDITION ORIGINALEaméricaine de Pilote de guerre, traduite par Lewis Galantière et illustrée par Bernard LAMOTTE.
Seller: Librairie KOEGUI, BAYONNE, France
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de and Lewis Galantiere. FLIGHT TO ARRAS. Reynal & Hitchcock: NY, 1942.
Price: US$862.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illus. by Bernard Lamotte, 8.5 x 6", gilt-lettered blue cloth, 255pp, covers rubbed, faded and soiled, extremities bumped and fraying, pp a bit toned, in a rubbed, spine-sunned, extremity-worn/torn/chipped and soiled dustjacket. Third Printing (March 1942) but INSERTED LOOSELY IS A HALF-TITLE PAGE FROM ANOTHER COPY, SIGNED AT THE TOP BY THE AUTHOR, ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
De Saint-Exupery, Antoine. Flight To Arras. Reynal & Hitchcock, United States, 1942.
Price: US$1600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by the Author. Clean text. Gently read. Heavy uniform toning to the edges of the text block. Toning to the edges of the cloth boards with light wear to the spine heel and crown. Blue cloth boards & spine, gold spine lettering. Dust cover has been clipped to the top corner of the front panel with the original price still intact to the bottom corner. Heavy chipping to the jacket extremities, rubbing to the flap creases and sunning to the spine. New mylar cover. Very interesting copy in that it contains a monologue written in pencil to the second FEP by an unnamed previous owner outlining a journey taken by aircraft from Berlin to Paris in 1945 in which he visited the WWI battlefield at Arras en route.
Seller: The Casemaker, Troup, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Handsomely bound in blue leather spine stamped brightly in gold, and sturdy woven linen boards. Splendid colored pictorial endpapers and numerous full-page drawings by Lamotte throughout. The leather spine is rubbed at the top and the bottom of the spine ends, and there is a short, closed tear at the top left edge, not affecting the gold lettering. Also light edge-wear and occasional scuffing to the blue leather. With the original box which is sunfaded along the edges and split along the top left-hand side. With a protective acetate jacket. A scarce copy of this classic Saint-Exupery adventure in aviation by the author of Night Flight and The Little Prince. Flight to Arras (French: Pilote de guerre) is a memoir by French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Written in 1942, it recounts his role in the Armée de l'Air (French Air Force) as pilot of a reconnaissance plane during the Battle of France in 1940. The book condenses months of flights into a single terrifying mission over the town of Arras. Saint-Exupéry was assigned to Reconnaissance Group II/33 flying the twin-engine Bloch MB.170. At the start of the war there were only fifty reconnaissance crews, of which twenty-three were in his unit. Within the first few days of the German invasion of France in May 1940, seventeen of the II/33 crews were sacrificed recklessly, he writes "like glasses of water thrown onto a forest fire". Saint-Exupéry survived the French defeat but refused to join the Royal Air Force over political differences with de Gaulle and in late 1940 went to New York where he accepted the National Book Award for Wind, Sand and Stars. He remained in North America for two years, and then in the spring of 1943 rejoined his old unit inNorth Africa. In July 1944, "risking flesh to prove good faith", he failed to return from a reconnaissance mission over France.This work was adapted as a radio drama for American audiences by the NBC Red Network and broadcast on 7 October 1942 at the Author's Playhouse. The work was later adapted, by Rod Wooden, in 1998 as a radio drama by BBC Radio 4, with David Threlfall playing the role of the pilot. (Wikipedia) Signed Limited Edition, this is #456/500 copies signed by Saint-Exupery and the illustrator.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Limited Edition of 500 copies of which this is No. 241, signed by the author and illustrator on the limitation page. Octavo (8vo). 255pp. + 13 lithographs. Bound in the publisher's quarter leather over cloth boards. Pictorial endpapers. Top edge is gold gilt. VERY GOOD in Fair slipcase. The book itself shows some marginal scuffing of the spine, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text is clean and unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. The slipcase shows some rubbing and discoloration, shelf rubbing along the edges with some loss, back has lifted significantly, otherwise the gold paper title label remains distinct and the structure sound. As pictured.
Seller: North Books: Used & Rare, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine de. FLIGHT TO ARRAS. Reynal & Hitchcock (1942), New York, 1942.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Bound in publisher's blue leather-backed boards. Copy #31 of 500 numbered copies SIGNED by the author and the illustrator Bernard Lamotte. Saint-Exupery is best known, of course, for writing THE LITTLE PRINCE. Usually found with severe rubbing to the spine, this copy has virtually no wear but the slightest rubbing to the spine tips. Just about Fine, lacking the slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
DE ST. EXUPERY, ANTOINE. Flight to Arras. Reynal & Hitchcock, Inc., New York, 1942.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarter blue leatehr over tan cloth. Housed in cloth slipcase with paper label. Edition limited to 500 copies signed by the author and the illustrator. This is copy #119. Some restoration work to head of spine o/w nice copy
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine de. FLIGHT TO ARRAS. Reynal & Hitchcock (1942), New York, 1942.
Price: US$3125.00 + shipping
Description: Bound in publisher's blue leather-backed boards. Copy #198 of 500 numbered copies SIGNED by the author and the illustrator Bernard Lamotte. Saint-Exupery is best known, of course, for writing THE LITTLE PRINCE. Usually found without the slipcase and with severe rubbing to the spine, this copy has no rubbing to the spine but does have some minor chipping to the spine tips and some soiling to the covers. What appears to be original glassine protects the book. Of the thirty or so copies we have seen or handled over the years, this is the first we have encountered with a glassine cover. Near Fine in glassine and a Near Fine slipcase with sunning to the outer edges
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de. Flight to Arras. Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1942.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED LIMITED EDITION of 500 copies. This copy is authentically SIGNED by Saint-exupery and Lamotte on the limitation page. A beautiful copy. The book bound in the publisher's ORIGINAL cloth and is in excellent condition. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy with the publisher's slipcase SIGNED by the author.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de. Flight to Arras. Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1942.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First trade edition, first printing. Signed by Antoine de Saint-Exupery on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with pages toned and spine a little dulled, in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket, with edge wear and spine sunning, scuff and stray graphite marks to spine, creases to front flap.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de. Flight to Arras. Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1942.
Price: US$4750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. This copy is SIGNED by Saint-exupery and Lamotte on the limitation page. A wonderful copy. The book is in great shape with light wear to the spine. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with minor wear. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy SIGNED by the author.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$45089.20 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, number 10 of 50 large-paper copies on papier Texte, presentation copy from the author to his closest American friend and partial inspiration for The Little Prince, inscribed warmly by the author on the half-title, "Pour Sylvia Hamilton, Avec la profonde et tendre amitié de son vieil ami, Antoine". Silvia Hamilton, later Reinhardt, was an inspiration for key aspects of Saint-Exupéry's most famous work, written while he was living in New York City for two years during the Second World War, where he acted as an expatriate voice of the French Resistance, hoping that his presence there might help bring the United States into the war. In New York the author, who was married, developed a strong bond with Reinhardt, who was divorced, and wrote some of the book in her apartment. She was the model for the character of Saint-Exupéry's fox, who uttered the book's oft-quoted line, "What is essential is invisible to the eye." Her black poodle inspired the sheep character, and her mop-topped doll, the little prince himself. The presentation of this copy was likely made on Saint-Exupéry's final visit to Sylvia. He was leaving New York, bound for Algiers, where he planned to serve again as a French military pilot - a mission from which he never returned, disappearing on a 1944 reconnaissance flight from Corsica to Germany. At the same time, he presented her with the original manuscript of Le Petit Prince, which Reinhardt later donated to the Morgan Library. Pilote de guerre, which relates Exupéry's own experiences flying with the Free French on reconnaissance missions during the Battle of France, was published in February 1942 simultaneously in French and English (as Flight to Arras, in an edition of 500 copies), under the auspices of the New York publishing house Reynal & Hitchcock, the French version carrying the imprint of the publishing arm of La Maison française, a showcase for French culture in New York established at Rockefeller Center in 1932. The French edition was issued in the traditional three-tiered French format aimed at both connoisseurs and readers: the total edition was 526 copies, with 50 large paper, 26 lettered, and a further 450 trade copies on papier Corsican. The book reached France towards the end of 1942 where it was banned by both the Nazis and the Vichy government because of Saint-Exupéry's praise for the courage of a Jewish pilot, Jean Israël. Small quarto. Original pale brown wrappers printed in black and red, edges untrimmed, pages unopened. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase by Devauchele. Tiny chips at extremities, spine a little rubbed, contents clean and unopened. An excellent copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom