Saint-Exupéry (Antoine de) The Little Prince, first edition in English, first issue with 5-line colophon, translated by Katherine Woods, numerous plain and colour illustrations by the author, bookplate, bookseller's ticket and contemporary ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, p.71 tear into text without loss, original salmon-coloured cloth, slight creasing to spine ends, some very light rubbing to spine ends and corners, first state dust-jacket with publisher's address listed as "386 Fourth Avenue" on front flap, priced $2.00, few light marks, panels lightly browned with some faint spotting, very slight creasing and some tiny nicks to extremities, spine and joints lightly rubbed with some small chips or short tears to ends, 4to, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943.

⁂ An excellent example of the children's classic. The English (as here) and French editions were published concurrently in New York, but the French edition in France was not published until 1945.