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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original color-illustrated boards with white lettering on cover. black on spine; in original color-illustrated dustjacket, black lettering on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Title page with vignette and solid blue framing of text and vignette. Half-title printed in red. All pages of block with solid yellow backdrop for b/w drawings plus eight full page color illustrations. True first edition with twelve girls in "They went home and broke their bread" illustration and 1939 printed below Simon and Schuster on title page. "This book is known as Madeline and you will find it very fine. It's much more fun than any toys, for little girls and little boys. Its heroine as you will see, lives in a place pronounced Paree; which gives you quite a splendid chance to learn the ways of Paris, France. Madeline has lots of friends, and plays with them until day ends. She has an appendectomy, and…

The first book in the Madeline series, introducing the adventurous little girl in a Parisian boarding school.