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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The Little Prince. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, [1943]. . First edition in English. Lim...
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Limited Edition, Signed by the Author
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The Little Prince. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, [1943].First edition in English. Limited to 500 numbered copies of which this is number 389. Signed by Saint-Exupéry on the limitation page. Octavo. 91 pages. Translated from the French by Katherine Woods. Illustrations by the author.
Publisher's salmon cloth with front and spine stamped in red. Light rubbing to extremities with a one-quarter-inch gash to cloth on upper edge of rear board. Toning to endpapers and page edges. Faint speckling along page edges. Dust jacket is toned and lightly rubbed with minor chipping to spine ends and corners. Modest foxing to rear panel. Though price clipped, jacket does have first edition point of Fourth Avenue address on front flap. Housed in a custom clamshell box. The seldom offered signed edition in very good condition.
Auction Info
2009 October Grand Format Rare Books Auction #6030 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
October, 2009
16th-17th
Friday-Saturday
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