![]() ![]() ![]() FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - price printed to rear panel of dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour pictorial artwork,by Antoine de Saint-Exupery illustrated dw/dj panels with white+yellow lettering to front and spine with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present - the smallest of nicks to front,lower corner.Top+fore-edges bright and clean contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark blue cloth boards decorated with a single,small yellow star towards top corner of front board,a yellow cloth blind spine with black printed ink lettering a sewn-in,navy blue silk bookmark ribbon and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3rd imp,1-83pp includes,XXVII(27) chapters,profuse full+part- page b/w+colour illustrations - all by de Saint-Exupery,interspersed throughout the text and the book plus 2pp blanks,half- title page,double-page colour illustrated title page,a dedication (to Leon Werth),a title separator page with Richard Howard's translator's note to its reverse,and as last page,author's potted biography to its reverse. ![]()
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