The Little Prince: Rare typed copy to go on sale for $1.25m

A typed copy of children's story The Little Prince, hand-annotated by the author, will go on sale in November.

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The typescript - a typed copy of a text - was produced in New York by its author, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, while in exile from Nazi-occupied France in the 1940s, and is one of three known to be in existence.

The copy contains handwritten notes and sketches by Saint-Exupéry. It will go on sale at the Abu Dhabi Art Festival in the United Arab Emirates in November.

Having the typed manuscript "is an extremely rare event", said Sammy Jay, senior literature specialist from the typescript's seller Peter Harrington Rare Books.

Saint-Exupéry wrote Le Petit Prince, in the original French, for children while living in exile in New York during World War Two. It was published in 1943.

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