Vers la vallée du Nil
Liège, Dynamo, « Brimborions », (November) 1945.
1 vol. (140 x 190 mm) of 8 p. and [2] f.
First edition.
One of 8 copies on blue vellum, numbered and initialed by the publisher (no. 4), after a unique copy on Japanese paper.
One of 8 copies on blue vellum, numbered and initialed by the publisher (no. 4), after a unique copy on Japanese paper.
One of the earliest booklets in the collection.
It presents, for the first time, Saint-Exupéry’s own account of the accident in the Libyan desert on 29 December 1935, which occurred during his attempt to beat Japy’s record on the Saigon–Paris raid.
From the library of Pierre Puech (Paris, Alde, II, 2010, no. 370).
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