Early copy of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic story features drawing and note of thanks to Dorothy Barclay, a reporter’s assistant who helped him estimate for the number of stars visible from Earth
“I am concerned with matters of consequence,” declares the star-gazing businessman whom Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Little Prince meets during his journey. “I am accurate.” But a unique first edition of the novella, which has just gone on sale in London for £150,000, reveals how the author came up with the figure of 501,622,731 for the number of stars the businessman claims as his own.
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