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THE LITTLE PRINCE was first published by the publishers Reynal & Hitchcock, Inc., on 6th April,1943. The french edition, LE PETIT PRINCE, was published a little bit later by the same publishers.
Five hundred twenty five of the English and 260 of the French copies were specially autographed by the author. Among them 25 copies of English edition and 10 copies of French edition were kept for the Author and the Publishers. Residual copies were sold in the market. Three copies I have.
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 Dast juckets were lost.
Signature page was added after the free front end paper. The serial number and the Signature of the Author were written by hand. These are #477 and #487.
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[The history document of #477 tellme that the book was gift to a woman from Saint-Exupery himself. So that, the limimted 500 copies were not always sold in the market.]
| serial number | date | memo |
| 10 | 2008.12.02 | An auction combined with French #45. |
| 24 | 2001.09.07 | US$8,500. [Reselled US$17,000 on 2001.10.24, price-downed to US$12,000. ] |
| 29 | 2001.06.05 | US$4,500. The number "29" was also hand-written on the spine of the jakect. |
| 38 | (2004.08. ) 2009.11. | (US$13,500., Seller in USA) Reselled in U.K., £ 1650.00 (US$ 2828.09) |
| 95 | 2009.03.14 | US$20,000. |
| 103 | 2004.08. | US$15,000. Price-up to US$17,250. on 2006.11. Again price-up to US$18,750. on 2009.12. |
| 121 | 2008.12.08 | An auction. |
| 163 | 2010.07. | US$17,500. |
| 234 | 2009.02.24 | US$20,000. Price-downed to 18,000.- , 2009.12.28. Price-up to 22,000. |
| 254 | 2002.09.20 | US$11,000. |
| 279 | This page. | |
| 324 | One of the collection of Ms Jill Morgan. | |
| 364 | 2009.01.11 | US$12,000. |
| 421 | 2005.10.31 | US$18,500. |
| 441 | 2010.07.16 | Auction started at US$14,000. |
| 458 | 2008.12.21 | US$13,000. Price-downed to $9,000.- on 2009.12.28 |
| 476 | 2002.12.11 | US$9,509.99.- [2003.10. US$9,975.00.- , 2005.11.06 US$ 10,450.00.-] |
| 477 | This page. | |
| 487 | This page. | |
| 498 | 2002.09.20 | US$13,500. |
