Accession number
PML 196234
Creator
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944.
Published
New York : Reynal & Hitchcock, [1941?]
Credit line
Purchased on the Caroline Morgan Macomber Fund, 2016.
Notes
A later printing with the 1939 copyright date but printed by H. Wolff Book Mfg. Co. and with a dust jacket advertisement for a publication by Saint-Exupéry due 1 December 1941 (The little prince). Laid in is a Paul Elder & Company two-leaf advertisement for The little prince.
Illustrated lining-papers of a mountain in blue and white.
"By the author of Night flight"--Preliminary page.
"Decorations by John O'H. Cosgrave II"--Preliminary page.
Illustrated lining-papers of a mountain in blue and white.
"By the author of Night flight"--Preliminary page.
"Decorations by John O'H. Cosgrave II"--Preliminary page.
Description
306 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Provenance
Inscribed by the author to Peppy Purdell on the half-title, with an ink and pencil self-caricature as the Little prince.
Summary
English translation of "Terre des hommes". Autobiographical account of air travel, captures the grandeur, danger, and isolation of flight.
Binding
Quarter black cloth, decorated boards, dust jacket.
Classification
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