Antoine De Saint-Exupery, 'The Little Prince', later printing of the first German edition.

"Der Kleine Prinz" Mit Zeichnungen Des Verfassers, by Antoine De Saint-Exupery, published by Karl Rauch Verlag, Dusseldorf, Germany, First edition, later printing. Copyright 1956 by Karl Rauch Verlag, 785th Thousand, printed in Germany, 1964.

Original dust jacket [a little wear and soiling], hard boards, original publisher's orange-yellow cloth (a little soiling the bottom edge: see photos); 7.1/4" x 9", many b/w and color illustrations by the author, 94 pages + publisher's add, very good binding and condition.

"The Little Prince" was first published by Reynal, New York in English translation and original French. The French-French version appeared in Paris in 1946. This novella is both the most read and most translated book in the French language, and was voted the best book of the 20th century in France.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery first published "The Little Prince" in 1943, only a year before his Lockheed P-38 vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. More than a half century later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power. The narrator is a downed pilot in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the apparition of a little, well, prince, who asks him to draw a sheep. "In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don't dare disobey," the narrator recalls." The Little Prince lived alone on a tiny planet no larger than a house. He possessed three volcanoes, two active and one extinct, although one never knows about volcanoes. He also owned a flower, unlike any flower in all the galaxy, of great beauty and of inordinate pride. It was this pride that ruined the serenity of the Little Prince's world and started him on the travels that brought him at last to the Earth where he learned finally, from a fox, the secret of what is really important in life...

"The book is known for it's wonderful story line as well as for the charming illustrations throughout. "There are a few stories which in some way, in some degree, change the world forever for their readers. This is one.

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