Feb 20, 2020 - Sale 2530

Sale 2530 - Lot 208

Price Realized: $ 7,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) SAINT-EXUPERY, ANTOINE de. The Little Prince. Illustrations by the author. Translated from the French by Katherine Woods. Small 4to, publisher's salmon cloth lettered in burgundy, corners and spine tips a little rubbed, small stray mark to front board; price-clipped dust jacket, panels toned, corners with nicks and closed tears with one extending into front panel, spine panel foot chipped, larger rectangular chip at top of spine/front panels (app. 50 x 30 mm), corner creased on limitation and half-title. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1943)

Additional Details

limited edition, number 155 of 525 copies of which this is one of 500 for sale signed by the author. First state dust-jacket with publisher's address listed as "386 Fourth Avenue" on front flap.