Penguin 1st Edition, 1939.
Inspired by his career as an aviator, Saint-Exupéry’s soaring novel follows the journeys of three pilots delivering mail overnight. The author’s beautiful, weightless prose is as haunting as his own disappearance in flight, eerily foreshadowed by his protagonist Fabien, who becomes lost in otherworldly darkness. Letter to a Hostage, Saint-Exupéry’s meditation on displacement and friendship, also explores solitude and questions the human condition.
Condition grading: Fair. Heavy creases, pencil price and bumping to top right corner section of front cover. Creases carry through all inside pages. Bumping wear to top of spine. Pencil wording to final inside page. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin 1st Edition, 1939.
Inspired by his career as an aviator, Saint-Exupéry’s soaring novel follows the journeys of three pilots delivering mail overnight. The author’s beautiful, weightless prose is as haunting as his own disappearance in flight, eerily foreshadowed by his protagonist Fabien, who becomes lost in otherworldly darkness. Letter to a Hostage, Saint-Exupéry’s meditation on displacement and friendship, also explores solitude and questions the human condition.
Condition grading: Fair. Heavy creases, pencil price and bumping to top right corner section of front cover. Creases carry through all inside pages. Bumping wear to top of spine. Pencil wording to final inside page. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
