SAINT-EXUPÉRY (Antoine de). Lettres à sa mère. Paris: Gallimard, 1955.
8vo (188 × 120 mm). 230 pp., (1) f. Original printed wrappers; uncut.
First edition, on large paper. One of 420 copies on vélin pur fil, forming the principal limited issue. This poignant collection of letters, spanning Saint-Exupéry’s youth to his final wartime missions, reveals the intimacy, humour and emotional depth of the author of Le Petit Prince in his most private correspondence.
