Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of Le Petit Prince by Antoine de St Exupery with no dust jacket. First Educational Edition (French) with no dust cover. First Educational Edition unstated, 1946 Hoghton Mifflin. Presumed First Printing with no subsequent printing.
Very Good hardcover with bright boards with marks and stains, toned page blocks, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rubbed corners. Previous owner’s name and year 1964 on the first free end paper. No other marks or inscriptions inside. Pages clean and bright. No dust jacket.
For more than eighty years, Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s classic, The Little Prince, has captured readers’ hearts. The whimsical story with a fairy tale feel has sold over 3 million copies in all formats. This is the popular French-language Teachers Edition, still used in schools today.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
