"The Little Prince" by Antoine De Saint-Exupery, First Edition, 3rd Printing, published by Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1943. Points of first edition: "Reynal & Hitchock" is imprinted on spine, title page and copyright page; color flower on page 27, colophon on page 94. "Third Printing" is stated on the copyright page. Each of the first six printings received different cloth color cover. The third printing is bound in green cloth.

Facsimile (copy) of the dust jacket in mylar cover. Hard boards, original publisher's green cloth (fading, spine ends wear); 7.1/4" x 9", the edge of the front endpaper is slightly damaged: see photo; many b/w and color illustrations by the author, 94 pages, some wear, 2 pages [13/14 and 15/16] have a c. 1/2 long edge crease: see photo], pages 58 and 59 have a paper impression which looks like a crease [see photo]; very good 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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