Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de - The Little Prince - ( Item 140714 )
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Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de - The Little Prince - ( Item 140714 )
Published in London by Folio Society. 2017. First Thus. 2 Fine Hardbacks. No inscriptions or bookplates. Near Fine slipcase. Slight marks to panels of slipcase. A definitive two-volume edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince featuring his original and unforgettable illustrations. The little prince lived on a very small planet, hardly any bigger than a house. Lonely on his tiny world, one day the prince, catching hold of a migration of wild birds, left on a journey across the stars to learn life's mysteries of love, loss and beauty in a universe corrupted by grown-up logic. First published in 1943, and since translated into 270 languages and 26 different alphabets, few books have touched the world like Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's modern fable The Little Prince. In its first Folio edition, this definitive two-volume production includes a new introduction by Saint-Exupéry's biographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff, as well as restored versions of Saint-Exupéry's unforgettable illustrations, as inseparable from the story as the words themselves. This edition won the Literature category at the British Book Design and Production Awards 2018. Bound in blocked cloth. Set in Bembo Infant. 112 pages. 40 integrated colour illustrations. Printed endpapers. 8.75" x 6.25". Commentary Volume: Bound in blocked paper. 80 pages. 36 integrated colour illustrations. Blocked slipcase. 8.75" x 6.25". Already a best-selling French author and pioneering pilot, Saint-Exupéry wrote his most cherished work while in secluded, self-imposed exile in America after escaping the fall of France to the Germans in 1940. Yet, out of his despair, armed with a set of children's watercolours and a typewriter, he created a story that was both a wide-eyed celebration of childhood adventure and a sombre, existential work of startling depth. An allegory for the French defeat, a meditation on the singularity of love or a personal note from the author on his own flickering innocence and disenchantment with the adult world? The message spoken by The Little Prince will forever remain a mystery. A year after its publication, Saint-Exupéry took off on a mission over the Mediterranean and disappeared, his body never to be found. In Schiff's poetic words, the author and his prince would forever 'remain tangled together, twin innocents who fell from the sky'.
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