Night Flight – Vintage Signet Classic Paperback

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Night Flight, a classic novel drawn from the dangerous early years of commercial aviation. Translated by Stuart Gilbert with a foreword by André Gide.

This vintage Signet Classic paperback features a striking illustrated airplane cover in vivid purple, blue, yellow, green, and red. Saint-Exupéry, himself a pioneering aviator, brought firsthand experience to this story of pilots flying dangerous nighttime mail routes across South America.

Published by New American Library as a Signet Classic, catalog number 451-CQ710, with the original 95¢ cover price. The copyright page carries the 1942 Reynal & Hitchcock copyright and a number line beginning with 15, identifying this as the 15th printing of the Signet Classic edition. This copy likely dates from the 1970s.

Condition: Good to Good+

A complete and solid vintage paperback with noticeable cosmetic wear. The wrappers show rubbing, edge and corner wear, creasing, and a small area of surface loss to the lower portion of the front cover. Rear cover has light soiling and age-related discoloration. Pages are uniformly toned with age.