A rare typescript of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s "The Little Prince", containing extensive handwritten corrections by the French author and described by book dealers as "literary treasure", will soon go on sale for $1.25 million.
A candidate for the world’s most translated book outside of religious texts, the novella about a child who travels from planet to planet gaining wisdom was published in 1943 at the height of World War Two.
The typescript features what is thought to be the first written appearance of one of the book’s most famous lines: "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; the essential is invisible to the eye."