Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry [FRENCH EDITION HARDCOVER] 11th Print • 1971 • Harcourt Brace & World

Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) written and illustrated by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 

FIRST U.S. FRENCH LANGUAGE EDITION [1971] HARCOURT BRACE & WORLD

11th printing / 1971 of this original line of U.S. French Language printings beginning in 1943. 

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. 

*Note -- one sealed, mid-sized corner tear to rear of dust jacket w. some surrounding creasing.  Otherwise, jacket is excellent.   Housed in a new hq brodart jacket protector.

Book itself is mint; pristine cloth boards.  Reads like new.  *Gift inscription dated 1972 written on underside of cover.

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.