first edition Hardcover
1943 · New York | Montreal
by Saint-Exupery, Antoine de
New York | Montreal: Reynal and Hitchcock | Beauchemin, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First State with the salmon boards and the "mark of the raven" present. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally toned and soiled, chips and bumps at the edges, Salmon-colored boards, lightly pushed at the corners, with reddish brown ink lettering on the spine and drawing on the front board. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean. The first French-language edition published in collaboration with Reynal & Hitchcock in the United States. A classic work from the pilot-turned-author. In 2017, the book became the most translated secular (truncated)