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Illustrated Books & Books in all Fields
1:00 PM PT - Aug 21st, 2008

 

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Lot 4110 save

St.-Exupery, The Little Prince 1st Ed. in jacket

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Title: The Little Prince
Author: Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
Description: Illustrated in color by the author. 9x7, salmon-colored cloth with illustration on front cover, color pictorial jacket. First Trade Edition, first printing.Classic children's book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, a fantasy stumbled upon while stranded in the Sahara Desert after a forced landing. First printing with the following points: binding is salmon-colored cloth; there is a colophon regarding the printing on the verso of the final text leaf. 4 page announcement for a French dramatic production of Le Petit Prince laid in.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Reynal & Hitchcock
Date Published: [1943]

Condition report

Jacket price clipped, browned, chipped at edges, tape repairs on verso; faint dampstain on front cover, remnants of bookplate on front pastedown, 1944 gift inscription on front free endpaper; very good in a good jacket.

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