BEMELMANS, Ludwig.
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep.
New York: The Viking Press , 1943.
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First Edition, Limited Issue of Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep; Signed by Ludwig Bemelmans
First edition, limited illustrated issue of the 'Madeline' series author's first novel. Octavo, original cloth with pictorial onlay to the front panel, all edges olive green, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with color plates. One of four hundred copies for sale, numbered 1 to 400, and one hundred copies for private distribution, numbered I to C, signed by the author on the limitation page, this is number 0. Very good in a good dust jacket.
"A curious, beguiling combination of innocence and sophistication, of sweet humor and shrewd, worldly insight, Bemelmans has a sunny tolerance for his fellow creature's private or personal failings that illuminates all of his writings and goes far beyond the little gray virtues generally suggested by the word 'tolerance'" (Louis Scheaffer). Bemelman's 'Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep' is an unconventional but entirely entertaining novel, following a variable group of ragtag individuals as they adventure to America and involve themselves in the nostalgic splendors of life, love, and death. The novel was adapted by Elaine Ryan for the stage in 1949, and produced and directed by Hume Cronyn, mingling professional actors with drama students at Stanford University. Performed at Stanford's Memorial Theatre during July 1949, the production starred Jessica Tandy and Akim Tamiroff, with Jeanne Bates, Feodor Chaliapin, Milton Parsons, and Roberta Haynes as the supporting professionals.
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