Visage de l’universel. Saint-Exupéry
Liège, Éditions Dynamo, P. Aelberts, [1957].
1 pamphlet (140 x 190 mm) of 16 pages, bound with a cord, in wrappers.
First edition.
One of 40 copies on white vellum (no. 42).
One of 40 copies on white vellum (no. 42).
General Lionel-Max Chassin, a former naval officer, recounts, with numerous anecdotes, his encounters with Saint-Exupéry: the first at Cap Juby during the rescue of a seaplane, the second when Saint-Exupéry came to attend an aerial navigation course.
An aesthete publisher, Pierre Aelberts issued more than 400 limited-edition works during his lifetime. He founded his first publishing house, À la lampe d’Aladdin, in 1926, before relaunching it in 1938 as Éditions Dynamo.
One of the ten “Brimborions” pamphlets by, or devoted to, Saint-Exupéry.
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