Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Le Petit Prince - 1990

A fabulous French edition of The Little Prince, a poetic and philosophical novel written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a French writer and aviator of the 20th century - It tells the story of a pilot who crashes in the Sahara desert and meets a child from another planet, the Little Prince - The latter shares with him his adventures and his encounters with symbolic characters, such as the King, the Conceited Man, the Drunkard, the Businessman, the Lamplighter, the Geographer, the Fox, or the Rose - It is a meditation on life, friendship, love, responsibility, loneliness, and the meaning of things. It contains watercolors created by the author himself, which makes this work all the more exceptional - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince - 1990 - Gallimard - 95 pages - Very good binding condition, the volume in its full publisher's cloth binding according to Paul Bonet's layout under a dust jacket beautifully illustrated on the boards, small stains and signs of use, spine and headbands somewhat worn, spine smooth, titling and author’s name in color and black - Very good interior condition, the work enriched with charming colored drawings in and out of text including a frontispiece after Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, reproduction of the bound edition based on Paul Bonet's layout, endpapers in good condition, a pleasing copy - Delivery service guaranteed within a few days –

Estimate:£25.38

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