8vo. Translated from the French by Katherine Woods. Publisher's salmon cloth; original dust jacket (stain to front cover, light chipping to head and tail of spine, toning). Provenance: "Barton Surter" (inscription).

FIRST AMERICAN TRADE EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with 5-line colophon on final text leaf.  In the FIRST ISSUE dust jacket advertising $2.00 price, the 486 Fourth Avenue address, and with rear flap blank. Following the German invasion of France, Saint-Exupery went into exile in the United States, where he wrote and illustrated The Little Prince during the summer and fall of 1942. The book was published in English and French the following year, however due to the Vichy Regime's ban on his works The Little Prince would not see publication in France until after the war. The book proved to be Saint-Exupery's last, as he disappeared while flying a reconnaissance mission for the Allies the following year.