[Rarebooks] FS: First Edition of Saint-Exupery's THE LITTLE PRINCE, 1943

[Charles Agvent]

SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine de. THE LITTLE PRINCE. New York: Reynal & 
Hitchcock, (1943). First Edition. First issue in salmon cloth with 
paragraph containing printing information and dustwrapper with Fourth 
Avenue address. The American edition appeared before the French or 
English editions. Owner inscription from April 1943 on the front 
pastedown. A bright, clean copy of this modern classic, the only real 
defect being a quarter-sized chip at the top outside corner of the rear 
panel of the lightly soiled dustwrapper affecting the first letter in 
"Antoine." Near Fine in an otherwise Near Fine, price-clipped 
dustwrapper. (#014887)        $3,500.00

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