2 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry first editions are documented on this shelf, from Wind, Sand and Stars (Terre des hommes) (1939) to The Little Prince (1943) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Antoine de Saint-Exupéry title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.

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Wind, Sand and Stars (Terre des hommes) — 1939 · Reynal & HitchcockFirst American trade edition: Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1939, translated by Lewis Galantière; octavo, 306 pp., with pictorial endpapers by John O'Hara Cosgrave II. Binding is half black cloth (black cloth spine, title in gilt) with blue patterned paper-covered boards and the top edge stained blue; the first printing shows no additional printings/impressions stated on the copyright page. In the U.S. the trade…. The true first of the work is the French 'Terre des hommes,' Gallimard, Paris, 1939. The English text is not a straight translation — Saint-Exupéry revised and added material for the American audience — so the Reynal & Hitchcock 'Wind, Sand and Stars' is collected as the first edition of that distinct English text; both the French original and the English edition are collected. The signed limited of 500 is the…. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection (July 1939). The club issue is typically unpriced at the jacket flap and usually carries a small blindstamped device to the lower rear board, whereas the first trade issue has the price present at the flap; use price-at-flap as the primary tell.
The Little Prince — 1943 · Reynal & Hitchcock, New YorkNew York: Reynal & Hitchcock, April 1943, in two simultaneous issues — Katherine Woods's English translation (The Little Prince) and Saint-Exupéry's original French text (Le Petit Prince). For the English trade issue the title-page imprint must read 'Reynal & Hitchcock, Inc.'; the copyright notice carries no edition or printing numbering; and the last-page colophon must be present, with no mention of Harcourt…. The census claim is confirmed in substance: both the original French text and the English translation first appeared from Reynal & Hitchcock in New York in April 1943, not from a French house — the famous reversal is real. Sources conflict on sequencing within April 1943: several date the English issue to 6 April 1943 with the French following a few days later, while dealers describing the 260-copy French…. The dominant trap is publisher succession, not a book club: Reynal & Hitchcock was bought by Harcourt, Brace & Company in 1948, which became Harcourt, Brace & World in 1960, and those later printings carry only the 1943 copyright date — they are routinely offered as firsts on the strength of that date alone. Test the imprint, not the date: any Harcourt name on the title or copyright page rules out the first….

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