Books

[FRENCH DESCRIPTION BELOW - DESCRIPTION EN FRANCAIS A LA SUITE]. First edition. One of 450 copies on Corsican (no. 246). "I will fight anyone who claims to enslave human freedom to an individual - or to a mass of individuals. Saint-Exupéry took refuge in the United States after the "phony war", and it was in New York that he wrote these lines. This edition, published in February 1942, is also the first unabridged, since it includes (p. 34) the seven words of a sentence in which the author collectively calls his orderly, a high-ranking member of the General Staff and Hitler "imbeciles" ("who started this demented war"), which the French censors demanded be deleted from the Gallimard edition of December 1942. But this only gave the book a short reprieve, since in early 1943 the German authorities, alerted by two scandalized articles in Je suis partout, banned it. This censorship led to the two clandestine versions published by Gaston Riby in late 1943 and early 1944. A nice copy…

Pilote de guerre (Flight to Arras) is a memoir by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, recounting his experiences as a reconnaissance pilot in the French Air Force during the Battle of France in 1940. It provides a vivid portrayal of the