(Modern Children's Literature)

Saint-Exupery, Antoine de. Le Petit Prince. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943



Square 8vo (8 ¾ x 7 in.; 225 x 180 mm). Illustrated by the author. Publisher's brown-stamped illustrated tan cloth in pictorial dust-jacket; intermittent spotting to edges;  jacket spine panel sunned with a touch of creasing at head, minor rubbing to front and rear panels. First edition in French. [With:] White, E.B. Stuart Little. New York: Harpers, 1945. 8vo (8 x 5 ½ in.; 205 x 135 mm). Illustrated by Garth Williams. Publisher's illustrated tan cloth in Williams pictorial dust-jacket; a crisp, unrubbed copy. First Edition, first issue with 10-5 and IU on copyright page.

Square 8vo (8 ¾ x 7 in.; 225 x 180 mm). Illustrated by the author. Publisher's brown-stamped illustrated tan cloth in pictorial dust-jacket; intermittent spotting to edges; jacket spine panel sunned with a touch of creasing at head, minor rubbing to front and rear panels. First edition in French. [With:] White, E.B. Stuart Little. New York: Harpers, 1945. 8vo (8 x 5 ½ in.; 205 x 135 mm). Illustrated by Garth Williams. Publisher's illustrated tan cloth in Williams pictorial dust-jacket; a crisp, unrubbed copy. First Edition, first issue with 10-5 and IU on copyright page.
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