4to 11" - 13" tall; 56 pages; Oversize, near folio, HC in original pictorial dust jacket. 1st British edition. Sound clean copy in publisher's red cloth with title lettering in black to spine and black outlined pictorial vignette to cover board. Full color illustrated dust jacket retains the publishers 12s. 6d price to the lower corner of the front flap. Cloth lightly shelf rubbed lower edges and boards just midly splayed at front edge. Some pages lightly thumbed to lower edge; a few have tiny closed nicks/tears in the lower margin. Pictorial lining sheets bright and sound. Dust jacket has moderate edge wear with short closed tears along the upper edge and extremities. A ; onger 2 inch closed crescent shaped tear to the lower edge of the rear panel. The 2nd of Bemelman's Madeline books in the 1st UK edition. Winner of the 1954 Caldecott medal for childrens' book illustration excellence. VG-/G++. Seller Inventory # 17996

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Title: Madeline's Rescue

Publisher: Derek Verschoyle, London

Publication Date: 1953

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

Dust Jacket Condition: Good+

Edition: First English Edition

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