BEMELMANS, Ludwig.
Madeline.
New York: Simon and Schuster , 1939.
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"In an old house in paris that was covered with vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines": Ludwig Bemelmans' Madeline
Early printing of the first book in the Madeline series. Thin folio, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by the author. Very good in a good price-clipped dust jacket. Some rubbing and slight loss to the spine. Some rubbing, closed tears, and a few losses to the extremities of the dust jacket.
First published in 1939, each Madeline story begins: "In an old house in Paris, that was covered with vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines... the smallest one was Madeline." “The original inspiration for Madeline was the convent where Bemelmans’ mother was educated as a child, along with the author’s own experience in boarding school, where he walked with his classmates in two straight lines” (Silvey, 55).
Madeline.
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