"POOR MADELINE WOULD NOW BE DEAD BUT FOR A DOG THAT KEPT ITS HEAD…": MADELINE'S RESCUE, SIGNED BY BEMELMANS
BEMELMANS, Ludwig. Madeline's Rescue. New York: Viking, 1953. Slim folio, original red cloth, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket.
First edition of the second Madeline book, signed by Bemelmans on the half title.
Winner of the prestigious Caldecott Medal. Bemelmans' Madeline series, published between 1939 and 1961, follows the charming heroine through her various adventures in a convent school in Paris. This, the second book in the series, focuses on Madeline's near-drowning in the Seine and her rescue by a clever dog. In variant cherry-red linen binding. Pomerance A30a.
Book about-fine, price-clipped dust jacket bright and lovely with restoration to spine ends and light rubbing to extremities. A near-fine copy.