The Little Prince. by SAINT-EXUPÉRY, Antoine de - 1943: Translated from the French by Katherine Woods.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock,, 1943. All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it First edition in English, first printing, signed limited issue, number 231 of 525 copies signed by the author. This copy has the matching numbered jacket, numbered in manuscript at the foot of the spine above the imprint. Although the work was originally written in Saint-Exupéry's native French, both English and French versions were published simultaneously in New York in April 1943. Quarto. Original light brown cloth, spine and front cover lettered in dark red, vignette illustration to front cover in dark red. With dust jacket. Illustrated in colour throughout by the author. Spine ends bumped, cloth and contents otherwise fresh; dust jacket lightly rubbed, spine a little toned, a few small chips and short closed tears to extremities, neat reinforcement to verso, price-clipped: a near-fine copy in very good dust jacket. Grolier Children's 100, 88.