Pikku Prinssi [The Little Prince] by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry [FINNISH FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1957

PIKKU PRINSSI aka THE LITTLE PRINCE written and illustrated by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 

FINNISH FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1971] WERNER SÖDERSTRÖM OSAKEYHTI

Rare true 1957 1st printing of this Finnish language first edition of the Little Prince.

Cloth-bound hardcover sans dust jacket in very good condition.

Boards show some faint spotting to rear and some worn edges. 

Binding is tight with some wear to cloth.

Pages are clean and unmarked.  *Front endpaper has a signature from original owner dated 1958 and second flyleaf page has a gift inscription.

Reads beautifully!  Clean, bright and vivid pages. 

 ⚜︎ ABOUT THE BOOK ⚜︎

The Little Prince lived alone on a tiny planet no larger than a house. He possessed three volcanoes, two active and one extinct, although on 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-Exupéry 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.