The Wisdom of the Sands by Saint-Exupery, Antoine de - 1950

University of Chicago Press, 1984. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Scuffing and smudging across covers and spine strip. Light bumping visible to corners of covers and ends of spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1863* Publisher: Alexander Strahan. Printed at the Camden Press, Dalzeil Brothers, London.* Binding and cover condition: Thick boards with bevelled edges. Brown red cloth, gilt title & decoration to spine with fully gilt decorated face and blind impressed decoration to back board. Corners slightly bumped & rubbed. Spine rubbed at head and tail, front hinge tender, may have been repaired. Some light marks. GOOD* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper, probably issued without.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Chocolate glazed end papers, binder's ticket (Burn) to rear pastedown. Gift inscription to fep dated 1862. All edges gilt. Clean, crisp, and tight with only minor reading wear to text, slight marks to prelims. A few marks in two places where ferns have been pressed between the pages, otherwise no major faults. VG* Illustrations: Freely illustrated by John MacWhirter & John Pettie and a vignette by John… Read More

New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1950. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine Book/Very Good DJ. Xii, 350 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. 1950 Copyright Date, No Later Printing [Publisher's Code] Indicated (If Code B-12-50 Were Present, It Would Be A Second Printing), No Book Club Dot. Book Near Fine, Contents Fine, Hinges Tight, Glue Stain On Front Pastedown From Bookplate Which Popped Off But Is Still Laid In Loosely. Dj Price Clipped, Lightly Worn, 1/2" Tear And Crease At Top Of Front Spine Edge, 1/4" Closed Tear Top Of Rear Flap Fold, 1" Closed Tear At Top Of Rear Panel, Very Slight Browning To White Lettering On Spine Panel..

Harcourt, Brace. Collectible - Good. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. 1st edition. 8vo hardcover. xii+350pp. Near Very Good book. Fair dust jacket. Dust jacket edgeworn. Short gifter's inscription on front endpage. A few pages toned from a newspaper clipping, else VG. (French Literature, Religious Fiction) Inquire if you need further information.

NY: Harcourt Brace. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's gilt-titled cloth. First edition, no additional printings listed. Corners bumped, top corner text block also slightly bumped. Bit of damping to text block edge; trace foxing. The DJ in mylar is price clipped, chipped/edgeworn, slightly foxed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xii, 350 pages .

London: Hollis and Carter, 1952. . First edition, 8vo., pp.xii,350, red cloth, gilt, top edges red; light rubbing to extremities, slight roll to spine, a very good copy, in price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has light wear and loss loss to extremities.

London: Hollis & Carter, 1952. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper worn at the edges with a touch of loss at the head of the spine. Binding slightly dull with fading to the top edges of both boards. The contents lightly toned with age.. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (red boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 8¾” x 5¾” (0.9 kg); (xii) 350pp; Translated by Stuart Gilbert; Includes: Top edge dyed Red; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #197746|| Condition:

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Translated by Stuart Gilbert. Fine in very lightly rubbed else about fine dust jacket. A pretty copy.