NMLP P-045400 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19
Wind, Sand and Stars
Antoine de Saint-Exupery · Editions Gallimard, Paris (as 'Terre des hommes') · 1939
The true first US issue is the signed/numbered limited edition of 500 copies; unsigned copies are the trade issue. Later Reynal & Hitchcock trade printings and the many mid-century reissues follow the 1939 first — check for the absence of any later-printing notice on the copyright page.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-045400 for "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045400, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).