Flight to Arras (signed by author and illustrator)

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942. Limited Edition. Leather Bound. Fair. Bernard Lamotte. SIGNED. 255pp. Octavo [22 cm] 1/4 bluish-gray leather with natural tan cloth over boards. Top edge gilt. Illustrated endpapers. A fair portion of the spine has perished. Lacking the slipcase. Ex-libris Ralph D. Hartman, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Illustrated by Parisian artist Bernard Lamotte (1903-1983). Number 352 in an edition limited to 500 copies. Signed by both Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Bernard Lamotte. A memoir by Saint-Exupéry, recounting his airplane mission over Arras in May 1940. Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) was a French aviator and writer. He is most known for his fable Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) which has become a modern classic. The novel tells the tale of a child, the little prince, who journeys throughout the universe in search of wisdom. Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince has been translated into hundreds of languages, and it is one of the best-selling books in publishing history. The author disappeared shortly after the book's publication during an aviation mission for the French Free Air Force over the Mediterranean Sea. (Inventory #: 69455)