Bemelmans, Ludwig. MADELINE. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939, (1939). FIRST EDITION (with 1939 on title-page and 12 girls not 11 in the "In two straight lines they broke their bread" illustration). Folio - 12-1/4" x 9-1/16". Color pictorial paper covered boards with the slightest touches of wear to the corners for what is a beautiful, bright, clean copy of the book. Color pictorial priced ($2.00) DUST WRAPPER with minor wear to the head and tail of spine and flap fold corners, and minor fraying to edges on back panel for what is a lovely example of the dust wrapper. Color pictorial endpapers with previous owner's bookplate on verso of FFE. [48] pp. The story, told in verse, is about Madeline, a little Parisian schoolgirl who manages to have fun in spite of a bout of appendicitis; wonderfully illustrated by Bemelmans with a simple pen and ink drawing on every page; the drawings are embellished with a limited palette of watercolors, most predominant of which being primary yellow. The condition of both the book and the original dust wrapper is NEAR FINE. A striking copy of this children's classic. # 000742