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.'

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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.