Madeline.
New York: Viking, (1939), early printing ca 1950s, (jacket mentons Sunshine 1950 as a recent publication ), not a 1st printing, with 12 little girls but no date on title page; full illustrated boards with Miss Clavel and her charges heading toward the Eiffel Tower, pictorial endpapers, in jacket identical to boards; 9x12.25; np. Picture Book hardback.
A lovely large copy with beautiful colour. Every generation of little girls falls in love Madeline! Caldecott Honor.
CONDITION: Very Good in Good Plus jacket; small gift inscription on half title, stain from 1" piece of darkened tape on dw and fixed endpapers, very bright boards have rubs on extrems, bumped spine ends, pages clean and unwrinkled, in clipped jacket with heavily rubbed creases, lightly rubbed edges, even soil on yellow back but no loss of paper. Item #17513
$115