The Little Prince is one of the most famous books ever written. It is said to have been translated into 300 languages and dialects. The original in French has also been reprinted by Ishi Press as Le Petit Prince - grande Edition imprimEe ISBN 4871879275 It was first published by Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1943. Copies of the first edition are rare and will sell for more than one thousand dollars. Here we have used for this reprint the original translation by Katherine Woods. There are at least six other published English Language translations and so many translations in other languages that it is difficult to count them. For example, there are said to be 70 translations into Chinese. The book was written in French. The English translation was dictated by the publisher. The Little Prince describes his travels to ten planets. The other little planets are asteroids that circle the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. The asteroids have numbers rather than names. The Little Prince lives on one of these asteroids and visits the others. It appears to be similar to and a predecessor of the "Star Treck" TV series involving a space ship that goes from one planet to another finding different life forms and new adventures on each planet.

サン＝テグジュペリが遺したこの至宝は、大人の論理に埋もれた純粋な真理を呼び覚ます哲学詩です。星々を巡る旅は孤独や愛の本質を問う鏡であり、格調高い翻訳による言葉の響きは、魂に「目に見えない大切なもの」を鮮烈に刻み込みます。それは一生を添い遂げるべき、静謐で力強い智慧の光です。 映像作品が幻想的な美で孤独を具現化する一方、原作の真髄は行間に宿る想像の余白にあります。言葉を通じて己の心と対話する体験こそが本作の醍醐味です。大判で綴られる王子の純真な言葉は、読者自身の内なる子供を解放し、世界を愛で満たすための魔法をかけてくれるでしょう。