Accession number
PML 127221
Creator
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944.
Published
[New York] : Reynal & Hitchcock ... [1943].
Credit line
Gift of Elizabeth Reynal Darbee, 1991.
Notes
Accpmpanied by a note from Ms. Darbee, the wife of Eugene Reynal (from the firm that published the book), explaining that the author had not signed the books, but one day, when about to leave the country, he picked up these galleys and signed them for her.
Author's name also at head of title.
Incomplete galley proofs (only pages with color illustrations) for the first English edition, 1943. Pages printed on one side only, lacks text after p. 68.
On page 20, illustration of elephants is printed in black & white (changed to color in first edition).
The colophon to the published edition states that the composition was done by the Cornwall Press and the printing by the Jersey City Printing Company.
Title page shows author's name above title (removed in first edition).
Translation of: Le petit prince.
Author's name also at head of title.
Incomplete galley proofs (only pages with color illustrations) for the first English edition, 1943. Pages printed on one side only, lacks text after p. 68.
On page 20, illustration of elephants is printed in black & white (changed to color in first edition).
The colophon to the published edition states that the composition was done by the Cornwall Press and the printing by the Jersey City Printing Company.
Title page shows author's name above title (removed in first edition).
Translation of: Le petit prince.
Description
68, [10] p. : ill. (part col.) ; 23 cm
Provenance
Inscribed by the author to Elisabeth (Elizabeth Reynal Darbee).
Binding
Stapled.
Classification
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