Antoine De Saint-Exupéry - Le Petit Prince - 1952

A superb numbered copy in its magnificent Bonet hardcover binding of this children's tale written and illustrated by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the famous French writer and aviator -

First published in 1943 in the United States, where Antoine de Saint-Exupéry had gone into exile during World War II. It was published in France by Gallimard, after the author's death during a reconnaissance flight over the Mediterranean -

It tells the story of a pilot who crashes in the Sahara desert and meets a child from another planet, the Little Prince. He shares with him his adventures and his encounters with symbolic characters, such as the King, the Conceited Man, the Drunkard, the Businessman, the Lamp-Lighter, the Geographer, the Fox, or the Rose -

It's a reflection on life, friendship, love, responsibility, loneliness, and the meaning of things. It contains watercolors by the author himself, which makes this work all the more exceptional -

Antoine De Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince - 1952 - Gallimard -
95 Pages.

Very good condition of the binding, the volume in its full publisher's cardboard binding based on Paul Bonet's design, slight signs of wear, headcaps a bit worn, spine smooth and titled, boards illustrated with gilding -

Very good interior condition, slight browning, the work enriched with superb watercolors by the author both in text and out of text including a frontispiece, one of the 10,000 numbered copies bound according to Paul Bonet's design -

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