Wisdom Sands: First Edition (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. First Edition. Ink inscription inside front cover. Ink underling on page 7 of introduction. Moderate creasing from pages 266-338. Pencil underling & brackets from pages 48-58. ACCEPTABLE - All pages and cover intact ACCEPTABLE - Pages may include notes, highlighting or minor water damage but text is readable ACCEPTABLE - Shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set housing is missing GOOD - Dust jacket for hardcovers may not be included GOOD - Moderate corner dings and/or curled corners GOOD - Yellowing and/or discoloration of pages is minor All items shipped Monday - Friday, fast shipping! Proceeds support the Sierra Vista Public Library.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. pp349. Name on ffep. 1st Edn. 5000 printed. The white card covers underneath the d/j, have stains on them. Text block and d/j are all good.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Volume 2 only. The jacket is shelf rubbed with creasing around the edges. The wraps are slightly edge rubbed. The binding is secure. The content pages are loose but included. No ink inscription or annotations. Presents well in cellophane. JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First English language edition. 8vo. 349pp. Burgundy cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Photographic endpapers and title page. Slightly cocked. Previous owner's name penned to the back of ffep. Thread broken to the top of the first gathering, otherwise binding tight. Includes tipped-in portrait plate of the author. Small chips to the photographic dj. at corners and tail of the spine, covererd in protective mylar.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Harcourt, brace & co. New York. 1st Ed. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. xii, 350 pages. This is a very satisfactory copy of the first printing, in a ragged dust jacket. Publisher's maroon cloth-covered boards sturdy and fresh, bumping to lower fore-corner of front panel else corners sharp, light wear to head and foot of spine; contents unmarked and attractive. "1950" on copyright page, no further printings or code noted. The dust jacket is rubbed and edgeworn, with small loss at head of spine. 560 grams.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket. First Edition. First UK Edition in dustwrapper priced 21s net to the inside flap. Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Lilac top-edge (unfaded). Boards exceptionally bright and clean. No previous owner inscriptions. Clean interior. Faint ghosting from the dustwrapper onto the front board. Gilt spine lettering a bit dulled. Slightly bruised spine tips. Some foxing to both sets of end-papers. Overall a near fine copy. The near fine dustwrapper is complete with a couple of short, closed tears at the head of the spine. A nice copy. Great cover art by Chadwick. "The final, deeply-felt summing-up of the author's experience and his philosophy of life. Choosing a desert prince as his protagonist and narrator, he presents the timeless problems of humanity against the austere background of the wilderness. The book abounds in vivid pictures of desert life, forays and sandstorms, mirage-born madness, beleaguered cities, caravans going their perilous ways. It may be read just for the sake of these scenes, so incomparably described, or read as an allegory of man and his grandeur, of his ends and the means that may lead to them and, most clearly of all, of the moral and spiritual values that unite the individual to God" (GoodReads). Further photographs available upon request. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher's gilt-titled cloth. First edition, no additional printings listed. Corners bumped, top corner text block also slightly bumped. Bit of damping to text block edge; trace foxing. The DJ in mylar is price clipped, chipped/edgeworn, slightly foxed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xii, 350 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xii + 350 pages. First edition. the book is bright and clean and the dustjacket has minimal wear. The jacket is price-clipped. The front hinge has some loosening. An attractive copy overall. Photos provided upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 350 pages. Red clothbound in very good, bright condition.The upper part of the front hinge is loosening. The dustjacket is very bright with minimal edge chipping and is price clipped. First American edition. Appears to be the second printing. (b-12-50 on the copyright page). Photos are provided upon request.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition, 8vo., pp.xii,350, red cloth, gilt, top edges red; light rubbing to extremities, slight roll to spine, a very good copy, in price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has light wear and loss loss to extremities.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. A pleasing first UK edition of this powerful posthumous novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, with the publisher's unclipped dust wrapper. First UK edition.With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.The Wisdom of the Sands is a posthumous work by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, first published in French in 1948. Unlike his earlier narrative-driven texts, this book takes the form of a reflective diary, capturing the author's thoughts on moral and spiritual dilemmas facing humanity.The translator, Stuart Gilbert, himself a well-known critic, calls this book "one of the most original, sincere and though-provoking books of modern times". In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart indeed, with only minor rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Dust wrapper is smart, with edge wear and minor sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). book.…

Cloth. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xii, 350pp. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block, light rubbing to corners, newspaper transference to front endpapers, a few small annotations in pencil, a near fine example. In publisher's dust jacket, $4.00 retail price on front flap, a touch of chipping to spine, light shelf wear, a near fine example. While best remembered for his classic novella The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince), Saint-Exupéry was also an aviator and member of the French Air Force. First edition of The Wisdom of the Sands by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. (illustrator).…

First Edition. Very good condition in poor, torn dust jacket. The book shows signs of wear with bumped corners and pushing to the head and tail of the spine. The dust jacket is tatty, with multiple tears, losses and a detached rear flap which has been repaired with tape (see photo). Book.