THE LITTLE PRINCE; 75th Anniversary / Antoine De Saint-Exupéry / Translated from the French by Vali Tamm by De Saint-Exupery, Antoine - 2018

New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc, 2018. First US 75th Anniversary Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very Fine/Fine. Antoine De Saint-Exupéry. Squarish tall 8vo (7 3/4"W x 9 1/4" H), pale yellow cloth with scarlet lettering on spine and front cover with imprint of Little Prince, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with De Saint-Exupery's image of the little prince with sword pointed downward, profusely illustrated in color and B&W drawings by Saint-Exupery, plus his preliminary sketches, photos, and biographical material; red endpapers with star-&-moon images, 222, [223-225] pages. Excellent, clean and tight expanded illustratred edition of this classic by Saint-Exupery. (See Stacy Schiff for an excellent biography of the French aviator and adventurer who gave his life fighting the Nazis.) The first printing by Harcourt, Brace and World appeared in June of 1943. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry published The Little Prince in June 1943, one year before his P-38 recon plane vanished over the coast of southern France.