Buenos Aires: Editorial y Libreria Goncourt, 1976; (1967); (1929). Presumed second printing of first Spanish language edition. Octavo in wraps; 268 pp; 19 cm Very good(+); faint discoloration to wraps; mild toning to pages, else a clean and tight copy. In about very good original glassine jacket (small closed tear to rear). Paperback.
Spanish-language translation of Exupery's first novel in which he pays homage to “those elemental divinities-night, day, mountain, sea, and storm,” turning an account of a routine mail flight from France to North Africa into an epic rendering of the pioneer days of commercial aviation. Uncommon inoriginal glassine jacket thus.
