Saint-Exupery,Little Prince,TRUE 1st/1st State,1943,D/J
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Payment | Shipping | Policies & add. Information Saint-Exupery,Little Prince,TRUE 1st/1st State,1943,D/J Click to View Image Album Click to View Image Album Click to View Image Album Click to View Image Album Click to View Image Album Click to View Image Album Click to View Image Album Click to View Image Album Click to View Image Album Click to View Image Album Click to View Image Album Click to View Image Album Click to View Image Album Click to View Image Album Attention: if you are looking for the true first edition of "Little Prince" be aware that many dealers list a "Harcourt and Brace" addition as "true first." The "Harcourt & Brace" edition with "copyright 1943" is mass-market edition first issued in late 1950s. TRUE first edition was published by "Reynal & Hitchcock" . While "Reynal & Hitchcock" copies are scarce and highly collectible, "Harcourt & Brace" copies are mass-production.April 6th, is a Birthday of "Little Prince". The world-wide first edition was presented on this day in 1943, so "Little Prince" had his 65th Anniversary this years. The original French edition was first published in 1946, almost three years later after appearance of this Katherine Woods' translation. THE LITTLE PRINCE, by Antoine De Saint-Exupery, RARE TRUE first edition, first state with colophon on page 94, published by Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1943. Points of true first edition: "Reynal & Hitchock" is imprinted on spine, title page and copyright page; color flower on page 27; colophon on page 94. Printing is not stated, which is the point of the first printing. Original first state unclipped dust jacket with "386 Fourth Avenue, New York" address. (DJ has some soiling, creases and wear). DJ is protected by the mylar cover. Original pictorial hard cover; maroon cloth (a little soiling), 7.1/4" x 9", many b/w and color illustrations by the author, 93 pages + colophon; inscription on the front endpaper, no creases, very nice copy. Very scarce true 1st/1st, especially in such very good condition. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his Lockheed P-38 vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. More than a half century later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power. The narrator is a downed pilot in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the apparition of a little, well, prince, who asks him to draw a sheep. "In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don't dare disobey," the narrator recalls. "Absurd as it seemed, a thousand miles from all inhabited regions and in danger of death, I took a scrap of paper and a pen out of my pocket." And so begins their dialog, which stretches the narrator's imagination in all sorts of surprising, childlike directions. The Little Prince describes his journey from planet to planet, each tiny world populated by a single adult. It's a wonderfully inventive sequence, which evokes not only the great fairy tales but also such monuments of postmodern whimsy as Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. And despite his tone of gentle bemusement, Saint-Exupéry pulls off some fine satiric touches, too. There's the king, for example, who commands the Little Prince to function as a one-man (or one-boy) judiciary: I have good reason to believe that there is an old rat living somewhere on my planet. I hear him at night. You could judge that old rat. From time to time you will condemn him to death. That way his life will depend on your justice. But you'll pardon him each time for economy's sake. There's only one rat. The author pokes similar fun at a businessman, a geographer, and a lamplighter, all of whom signify some futile aspect of adult existence. Yet his tale is ultimately a tender one--a heartfelt exposition of sadness and solitude, which never turns into Peter Pan-style treacle. Such delicacy of tone can present real headaches for a translator, and in her 1943 translation, Katherine Woods sometimes wandered off the mark, giving the text a slightly wooden or didactic accent. Saint-Exupéry's drawings offer a handy rebuttal: they're fresh, funny, and like the book itself, rigorously truthful. An extremely popular book, both in French and in English, first editions are becoming increasingly difficult to find. The book is known for it's wonderful story line as well as for the charming illustrations throughout. "The Little Prince lived alone on a tiny planet no larger than a house. He possessed three volcanoes, two active and one extinct, although one never knows about volcanoes. He also owned a flower, unlike any flower in all the galaxy, of great beauty and of inordinate pride. It was this pride that ruined the serenity of the Little Prince's world and started him on the travels that brought him at last to the Earth where he learned finally, from a fox, the secret of what is really important in life. "To preserve his memory of the Little Prince, Saint-Exupery has made some forty watercolors, whimsical, gravely meticulous in detail. Each is an almost essential part of the story..There are a few stories which in some way, in some degree, change the world forever for their readers. This is one." SCARCE & NICE COLLECTIBLE COPY. Pay me securely with any major credit card through PayPal! Free last minute bidding, have auctions call your cell phone. Payment Back to Top Payment with check drawn on US bank !! (need to clear)--> NO checks from foreign banks (not even with US $$ amounts on it) & NO cashier checks, please. 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