AUTOGRAPHS, LETTERS & MANUSCRIPTS
By International Autograph Auctions
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Apr 7, 2022
Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. E-12, Bajo B 29688 Estepona (Malaga). SPAIN, Spain
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Sold for: €1,600
Start price:
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1,500
Estimated price :
€1,500 - €2,000
Buyer's Premium: 25.5%
VAT: 17%
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SAINT-EXUPERY ANTOINE DE: (1900-1944) French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator, remembered for his novella The Little Prince (1943). An original bold pencil drawing by Saint-Exupery, unsigned, one page, 4to, n.p., n.d. To the lower half of the plain sheet of stationery Saint-Exupery has drawn a sketch of a fish, seemingly tempted by a piece of bait on a hook, which the writer has drawn in the upper half of the page. Saint-Exupery has also added various apparently random figures ('2,500,000,000', within a rectangular box, '50,000', '1000' etc.) in his hand, in pencil, to various parts of the page, along with a few other symbols and two words ('tonne Km'?). Two very small, minor pinholes to the upper left corner and some very slight creasing to the edges and corners, VG
