Airman's Odyssey: A Trilogy Comprising Wind, Sand & Stars, Night Flight, Flight to Arras
by Saint-Exupery, Antoine De
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1956. early reprinting. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 437 pages; 1956 Harcourt, Brace & Co. HC/DJ is snugly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket. Apparent 5th printing of this omnibus edition with e.5.56 on copyright page. Jacket mildly toned to the lighter areas of the front panel but more heavily toned to the rear panel. A light accordion set of stress creases to the bottom front corner of the rear jacket panel with a couple short tears and nicks same location. Shallow chips to jacket spine ends. 1959 gift inscription penned neatly to front endpage. Handsome shelf presence on this uncommon omnibus edition of Saint-Exupery's three classic accounts of flying. VG+/VG .
Synopsis
Three classic adventure stories, reminders of both the romance and the reality of the pioneer era of aviation: Night Flight; Wind, Sand and Stars; and Flight to Arras. Introduction by Richard Bach. Translated by Lewis Galantière and Stuart Gilbert.
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- Bookseller
- DogStar Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48323
- Title
- Airman's Odyssey: A Trilogy Comprising Wind, Sand & Stars, Night Flight, Flight to Arras
- Author
- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- early reprinting
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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DogStar Books
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
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