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SAINT-EXUPÉRY (Antoine de). Autograph manuscript. 3/4 p. in-folio on orange paper; two passages crossed out; a few stains. BEAUTIFUL PASSAGE FROM HIS WORK TERRE DES HOMMES, in a version with significant variants from the final text published in 1939. Here, the narrator and his radio, Neri, are lost in mid-air above the ocean: "... An image that haunts me. I was thirsty and hungry... And if we could find Cisneros, we'd be saved... We would land in... Casablanca. As Neri and I sat down to a morning café au lait and warm croissants, life's early gift to us, we'd be far from our night... " ATTACHED: GRILLPARZER (Franz). Autograph card signed, in German. Vienna, April 3, 1870. One p. in-16 oblong; trace of tab on verso.
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SAINT-EXUPÉRY (Antoine de). Autograph manuscript. 3/4 p. in-folio on orange paper; two passages crossed out; a few stains. BEAUTIFUL PASSAGE FROM HIS WORK TERRE DES HOMMES, in a version with significant variants from the final text published in 1939. Here, the narrator and his radio, Neri, are lost in mid-air above the ocean: "... An image that haunts me. I was thirsty and hungry... And if we could find Cisneros, we'd be saved... We would land in... Casablanca. As Neri and I sat down to a morning café au lait and warm croissants, life's early gift to us, we'd be far from our night... " ATTACHED: GRILLPARZER (Franz). Autograph card signed, in German. Vienna, April 3, 1870. One p. in-16 oblong; trace of tab on verso.
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