night flight by antoine de saint exupéry

By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes. Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.Without extremely scarce original glassine. This is the exceedingly scarce first edition in English, published in July 1932 in Paris for purchase on the Continent only precedes the London edition, which was not released until November 8, 1932. The translator Stuart Gilbert, who had previously rendered Joyce’s Ulysses into French, recalls, “Before I was through I was taking passages to Joyce and saying: ‘Now how would you translate this?’ And Joyce would take a long squint and then say: ‘Well, let’s see…’ And I’d get my pages back later, revised by the Master” (Schiff, 210). The reviews were glowing… Night Flight is a battle with the elements on a scale with The Old Man and the Sea… On both sides of the ocean Saint-Exupéry was hailed as a classicist… In 1932, when the novel was published in America, it was greeted as ‘an enduring modern classic’… the best description of flight in print, a distinction it arguably holds still today” (Schiff, 205, 210). “ Night Flight… the novel he had written on scraps of mismatched paper all over South America and whittled down to 180 pages on the Riviera that spring, was published in Paris in October 1931. Small octavo, original buff paper self-wrappers.įirst edition in English, first printing, of Saint-Exupéry’s second novel, 1931 winner of France’s Prix Femina. “IF ONLY YOU PUNISH MEN ENOUGH, THE WEATHER WILL IMPROVE”: FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF SAINT-EXUPÉRY NIGHT FLIGHT: “THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF FLIGHT IN PRINT”

Night flight by antoine de saint exupéry