first edition
1955 · Paris
by SAINT-EXUPÉRY, Antoine de
Paris: Gallimard, 1955. First Edition. First printing, no. 352 of 420 numbered copies printed on vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre. 12mo (19cm). Original paper wraps, in glassine jacket; 230,[2]pp, unopened. Bookplate of James Mead, ownership marks to front free endpaper. Small tear to glassine at rear upper margin, front cover rippled from bookplate glue, else Near Fine. Translation by Adrienne Foulke. Letters to the author's mother, written from 1910 to 1936, and published posthumously. (Inventory #: 57379)