first edition
1943 · New York
by Saint-Exupery, Antoine de
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. First Edition. Very Good. First softcover edition, first printing. 91, [2] pp., text in French. Bound in publisher's original illustrated wraps with earliest state of page 63 and with the publisher's imprint wrapped around the spine extending onto the covers. Very Good with moderate soiling and toning to covers, short splits at head and tail, and waterstaining at tail of spine affecting first two leaves. Contents lightly toned, occasional faint traces of red pencil, overopened at several places. Illustrated with attractive offset lithographs taken from the author's watercolors.
(Inventory #: 140947674)
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