SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine de -- Pierre LOTI. Mon Frère Yves. Deux Cent Quatrième Edition, Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1923. 8° (lightly browned at margins), contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt (joints and corners lightly rubbed), original printed wrappers bound in. PRESENTATION COPY, the half title inscribed 'A ma chère petite Strachan. Ant. de St. Exupéry.'

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SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine de -- Pierre LOTI. Mon Frère Yves. Deux Cent Quatrième Edition, Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1923. 8° (lightly browned at margins), contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt (joints and corners lightly rubbed), original printed wrappers bound in. PRESENTATION COPY, the half title inscribed 'A ma chère petite Strachan. Ant. de St. Exupéry.'

Lot Essay

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) is best known for his work Le Petit Prince of 1943, an allegorical story of a small boy from another planet who befriends a pilot stranded in the desert. A pilot himself, Saint-Exupéry was declared missing after a wartime reconnaissance flight in 1944.

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