SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine de; Translated by Katherine Woods.
The Little Prince.
Signed Limited First Edition of Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince; One of only 500 copies
New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1943.
$42,000.00
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Item Number: RRB-149121
* Custom Clamshell Boxes are hand made by the Harcourt Bindery upon request and take approximately 60 days to complete
First limited edition with the proper address on front jacket flap and printing statement on last page of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s masterpiece, which precedes the first edition in French. Signed by the author on the limitations page. One of 500 numbered copies, this is number 404. Small quarto, original salmon cloth, illustrated by the author. With the five-line colophon on the last page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with the $2.00 price present and the publisher's address as 386 Fourth Avenue on the front flap with light expert restoration to the spine tips. Translated from the French by Katherine Woods. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. An exceptional example.
The Little Prince has something of Hans Christian Andersen in it, something of Lewis Carroll, and even, it may perhaps be said, a bit of John Bunyan. It is often lyrical sometimes profound However it is classified, The Little Prince has entered children’s literature, in the manner of quite a few other such hard-to-define works in the preceding centuries" (Pierpont Morgan Library). It is one of the most-translated books in the world and was voted the best book of the 20th century in France. Translated into 300 languages and dialects (as well as Braille), selling nearly two million copies annually with sales totaling over 140 million copies worldwide, it has become one of the best-selling books ever published. A year after the book’s publication in 1943, Saint-Exupery disappeared over the Mediterranean while flying a reconnaissance mission for his French air squadron, making this signed limited very desirable. it is the basis for the 2015 English-language French 3D animated fantasy adventure family drama film directed by Mark Osborne. The film stars the voices of Jeff Bridges, Rachel McAdams, Paul Rudd, Bud Cort, Marion Cotillard, Benicio del Toro, James Franco, Ricky Gervais, Paul Giamatti, Riley Osborne, Albert Brooks and Mackenzie Foy.
The Little Prince.
$42,000.00
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