Beschreibung:

[Children's & Illustrated] Saint-Exupery, Antoine de Le petit prince New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. First U.S. edition, with the author's Fourth Avenue address to front flap of dust-jacket. 4to. French language printing. Illustrated by the author. Publisher's salmon-colored cloth, stamped in maroon, with very light wear to extremities and some soiling to bottom edge of front board; front free endpaper with contemporary ink gift inscription, offsetting to half-title, p. 9 with some spotting to outer margin; in the original pictorial dust-jacket, lightly soiled, with toning to spine panel, and light wear to extremities including two-inch closed tear to top edge of front panel, affecting the first "P" in the printed title, short closed tear affecting the last "E" in the author's name, short closed tear to top of spine panel and top edge of rear panel near the fold. Overall, a nice copy of this well-known book. Provenance: Private Collection, New York, NY.