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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing with dated title page. Signed by Ludwig Bemelmans and dated in the year of publication on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original decorated paper covered boards. Very Good with edge wear heaviest at corners and spine ends. Toning to edges, light foxing to rear cover and several to pages, browning to endsheets. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with edge wear, soiling and heavy toning. A major classic in children's literature and a Caldecott Honor book, scarcely found signed.

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