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Saint-Exupery, Le Petit Prince, 1st Ed. in jacket

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Title: Le Petit Prince
Author: Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
Description: [93] pp. Color illustrations by the author. 8¾x6¾, original salmon cloth stamped in dark maroon, color pictorial jacket. First Trade Edition.After the fall of France to the Nazis St. Exupery came to New York at the invitation of his American publisher, Reynal & Hitchcock and it was there that his classic illustrated story "The Little Prince" was first published - both in French and English-language editions. A few months after publication, St. Exupery rejoined his squadron to fly reconnaissance missions over the Mediterranean. His plane was lost on July 31, 1944 and his fate remained a mystery until recently, when wreckage of an aircraft found in the sea near Marseilles was proven to be from his plane. Also issued in both French & English in a limited edition signed by the author. This first French-language edition is considerably scarcer than the English translation.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Reynal & Hitchcock
Date Published: [1943]