Illustrated by the author
Introduced by Stacy Schiff
Translated by Richard Howard
Commentary Volume by Christine Nelson
A definitive two-volume edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince featuring his original and unforgettable illustrations.
All grown-ups were children first. (But few of them remember it)
The little prince lived on a very small planet, hardly any bigger than a house. Lonely on his tiny world, one day the prince, catching hold of a migration of wild birds, left on a journey across the stars to learn life’s mysteries of love, loss and beauty in a universe corrupted by grown-up logic. First published in 1943, and since translated into 270 languages and 26 different alphabets, few books have touched the world like Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s modern fable The Little Prince. In its first Folio edition, this definitive two-volume production includes a new introduction by Saint-Exupéry’s biographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff, as well as restored versions of Saint-Exupéry’s unforgettable illustrations, as inseparable from the story as the words themselves.
This edition won the Literature category at the British Book Design and Production Awards 2018.
Bound in blocked cloth
Set in Bembo Infant
112 pages
40 integrated colour illustrations
Printed endpapers
8¾˝ x 6¼˝
Commentary Volume:
Bound in blocked paper
80 pages
36 integrated colour illustrations
Blocked slipcase
8¾˝ x 6¼˝
This is a beuatiful set for a classic book!
Review by NICK ANELLO on 21st February 2025
A lovely product.
Review by HM on 23rd December 2024
Gorgeous book. Very pleased
Review by Jeff Abbott on 21st December 2024
Great detail binding and box cover. A bit expensive
Review by Kim Masters. on 30th October 2024
An essential for a child's library. This Folio edition teaches them a higher value of the story, and of the book as well.
Review by Stephen Anthony on 31st August 2024
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