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Bemelmans, Ludwig. Madeline's Rescue. The Viking Press, New York, 1953.
Price: US$7.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The cover is worn, rubbed and tanning. No markings in text. Usual library/discard markings. Small closed tears on a few pages. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Ludwig Bemelmans. Madeline's Rescue.. Viking Press, New York, 1953.
Price: US$9.75 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Viking Press, New York, 1953. Good. , Hardcover, Ex-library. Orange pictorial library binding. 56 pages. 1962 printing. No dust jacket. Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care.
Seller: Lincbook, Foster, RI, U.S.A.
BEMELMANS, LUDWIG. MADELINE'S RESCUE. Viking Press 1953,1981, NY, 1953.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VERY GOOD Condition,clean, solid,bright; CALDECOTT HONOR author/illutrator. "little girls in yellow form two straight lines plus Madeline ." .red/yellow cover shows Nun, little girls & INSTITUTE DE FRANCE. ; 56pg thin pages; Little girl in Paris.Painter, illustrator & writer for both children and adults.Among the Most honored children's of all time.
Seller: WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL, Durham-CA, CA, U.S.A.
Bemelmans, Ludwig. Madeline's Rescue. Viking Press, 1953, 1953.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Description: HB, no DJ. Ill. endpages. Ex-library thus some marks, card pocket etc. Cover shows medium wear. Pages slightly soiled. Great yellow, black and white illustrations by the author. April 1953 edition.
Seller: Jan Baker, Irving, TX, U.S.A.
Bemelmans, Ludwig. Madeline's Rescue. Viking Press, New York, 1953.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Ink gift inscription, mild cover wear, else the 3rd Printing from 1955. No jacket. ; 0.3 x 7.4 x 5.3 Inches
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Bemelmans, Ludwig. Madeline's Rescue. Viking Press, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1953.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Another in the continuing adventures of the "twelve little girls in twelve straight lines" in Paris, "the story of a canine, who saved our little Madeline, from the waters of the Seine." Orig. published in Good Housekeeping Magazine & then in book format in 1953, this is the 10th printing (1966) of the FIRST EDITION, in 56 pages, with the delightful illustrations by author Bemelmans on every page in full color! Oversized hardcover has green cloth-covered boards with decoration of Madeline & the dog on front cover in darker green, green lettering to spine. Book is in VG condition: very clean, binding tight & square; pages white; colors vivid; NO writing, underlining, coloring, or highlighting, NOT ex-lib. Flaws: slightly bumped corners, mild rubbing to extremities. The unclipped DJ is VG-, showing a little more rubbing to extremities & some very tiny chips/tears. The gilt paper Caldecott medal on front cover has been removed. Looks lovely protected in new mylar cover Free. Photos show the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Seller: Gargoyle Books, IOBA, La Mesa, CA, U.S.A.
BEMELMANS Ludwig:. Madeline's Rescue. New York. Viking Press. 1981., 1953.
Price: US$15.46 + shipping
Description: Reprint. Hardback. Book is in Fine condition, unclipped dust jacket is Very Good, slight shelf wear to extremities and a small closed tear to back panel.
Seller: Gemini-Books, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
BEMELMANS, LUDWIG. MADELINE'S RESCUE. The Viking Press, NEW YORK, 1953.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Excellent copy of the Caldecott Award winner for 1954, with a blank bookplate.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Bemelmans, Ludwig. Madeline's Rescue. Viking Press, NY, 1953.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cover shows some shelfwear. 56 pages very clean and tight. ASIN: 0670447161
Seller: Carol's Cache, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Ludwig Bemelmans. MADELINE'S RESCUE. The Viking Press, New York, 1953.
Price: US$48.88 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in boards. Previous owner bookplate to page opposite copyright page. Faded front and rear boards. Toning throughout. Edge wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Ludwig Bemelmans. Madeline's Rescue. Viking Press, New York, 1953.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto. 12" x 9" Unpaginated. A classic if there ever was one. A Very Good book in a Good dust jacket. Book is bumped at top and bottom of spine. Jacket has a 1.75" x1.25" piece missing along the bottom, tears at the top and bottom of the spine and at the corners.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Ludwig Bemelmans. Madeline's Rescue. The Viking Press, New York, 1953.
Price: US$51.53 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original cloth boards have several green pen marks and several stains, predominantly to front board. Corners bumped; some scuffs to pictorial endpapers; internally quite clean with occasional finger marks and brown spots throughout.
Seller: Moriarty's, Grimsby, LINCO, United Kingdom
Bemelmans, Ludwig. Madeline's Rescue. Viking Press, New York, 1953.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Holiday price reduction (from $90). Hardcover in Very Good condition in a good dust jacket, large 4to. Red cloth with titles and decoration in black, color illustrated end-papers, illustrated in full color and yellow monochrome. First edition. Light soiling, few dark spots on front board, very bottom/tail edge of front board shows evidence of damp (see photo) with some red transfer to dust jacket, else clean and unmarked, dust jacket chipped and edge-worn with two short closed tears to bottom of back dj panel, not price clipped ($3.00). Bookseller accession no.: L21592. Extra postage will be required for international shipment of this large volume.
Seller: Ulysses Books, Michael L. Muilenberg, Bookseller, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.
Ludwig Bemelmans. Madeline's Rescue - w/ Dust Jacket! (First Edition). The Viking Press, 1953.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This old book with dust jacket is clean, unmarked and in great shape. This First Edition, oversized hardcover book has 56 pages including many color illustrations. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. The pages are clean with no soiling, writing, or tears. The copyright and title pages show 1953 as the published date making this a First Edition. The price has been clipped from the DJ flap. The book has red cloth covers that are in Near Fine condition. The dust jacket is over 99% intact. There is scotch tape residue in a few spots where prior owner taped a couple of closed tears. I have placed the DJ in a fresh mylar jacket and this old book looks and feels great! We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box!
Seller: THIS OLD BOOK, Brookfield, IL, U.S.A.
Ludwig Bemelmans. Madeline's Rescue. The Viking Press, New York, 1953.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A crisp, clean copy of the 1953 1st edition. Solid and Near Fine in its red pictorial cloth, with just a touch of very light wear along the spine ends and the tips. Internally, clean as could be, with no writing or markings of any kind. Tall quarto, wonderfully illustrated by the maestro Bemelmans throughout. Lacking its original dustjacket.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
BEMELMANS, Ludwig.. Madeline's Rescue. "Demonstration Copy.". The Viking Press, New York, 1953.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 11 leaves printed one one side only. Illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans. Folio, plain red cloth; Bemelmans illustrated endsheets; no lettering or design on the cloth. Demonstration Copy. Inner hinges weak; shaken; light use to cloth. An old Albany retailer's ticket at base of title page. Illustrated title page; plus ten leaves bound out of order; a publisher's dummy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Ludwig Bemelmans. Madeline's Rescue (with first issue dust jacket). Derek Verschoyle, 1953.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Madeline's Rescue" by Ludwig Bemelmans. Derek Verschoyle, London. 1953 first UK edition first printing. Book in very good condition with very good first issue dust jacket, price unclipped with minor wear to edges and small tear at front cover, housed in mylar cover. Madeline's Rescue is a children's picture book by Ludwig Bemelmans, the second in the Madeline series. Released by Viking Press, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1954. Rare in this condition
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Ludwig Bemelmans. Madeline's Rescue. Viking Press, 1953.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This is a FIRST edition of the well known Madeline books. The book is in excellent condition with clean interior pages and a bright red cover that is flawless. The dust jacket is very good showing little chips along the edges and a spne chip approximately1/2 inches. There is also a chip out of the mid spine area (1/2 by 2 inches). Picture available upon request.
Seller: Round About Children's Books, Aurora, CO, U.S.A.
Bemelmans, Ludwig. Madeline's Rescue. The Viking Press, New York, 1953.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Issue. This original price clipped dustjacket has some wear to the top spine and edges. The book is in nice shape with slight wear to the boards. The pages are clean with light foxing to the edges. A collectable copy of this first edition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
BEMELMANS, Ludwig.. Madeline's Rescue.. The Viking Press, New York, 1953.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: 54 pp. Written and Illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans. Folio, publisher's illustrated red cloth in dust jacket. First edition. A fine copy in a fine bright dust jacket -- there is a 1/8" area of slight use at the top of the spine and an equally small nick at one corner.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
BEMELMANS, Ludwig. Madeline's Rescue. The Viking Press, 1953.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by "Ludwig" Bemelman, signing his first name only. April 1953 publication. 56pp, quarto hardcover in red cloth. mild wear to book edges, ends, and corners, backstrip lightly wobbles under cloth but strongly intact with no signs of weakness or splitting along spine edges, light spot of discoloration top front cover edge, binding and hinges remain strong and solid with no breaks or signs of starting, owner name to front pastedown, interior text and images remain clean. Very rare to find a signed copy of this Caldecott winner's works! siged by author / illustrator.
Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Bemelmans, Ludwig. Madeline's Rescue. The Viking Press, New York, 1953.
Price: US$715.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Large 4to. [6], 7-56 pp. Red cloth with decorations in dark red on the front board, dark red lettering on the spine. Colorful illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A Caldecott Medal sticker applied to the dust jacket's front panel by a collector (this title won the 1954 Caldecott Award). Several full-page and in-text color illustrations. Baumgarten 19. Signed without personalization by the author on the half-title page. The thrilling story of the small but mighty Madeline, and how a dog saves her from drowning. A small dampspot on the rear board's corner; jacket with a large piece missing from its rear panel, a few archival tape repairs to its reverse.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
BEMELMANS, Ludwig.. Madeline's Rescue.. New York The Viking Press, 1953.
Price: US$786.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing; folio; illustrations and pictorial endpapers by Bemelmans, contemporary ownership inscription on half-title; publisher's cloth, pictorial wrap-around dust-jacket, a few small chips and closed tears with slight loss to head of spine, but overall a very good, fresh example. A very good first edition of the second in the Madeline book series, which won the 1954 Caldecott Medal for 'most distinguished picture book'. The author/illustrator courted some controversy when the work won this prize, seemingly joking with two Time magazine reporters that the whole tale was in fact an allegory for a far more mischievous tale of prostitutes, brothels and unplanned pregnancy; unfortunately this 'joke' was taken at face value and printed in Time, outraging the Caldecott Prize committee and provoking Bemelmans to threaten to sue the magazine.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Bemelmans, Ludwig. Madeline's Rescue. The Viking Press, New York, 1953.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Large thin quarto red pictorial cloth stamped in black. Illustrated by the author. First edition. Fine in a very good plus dust jacket which has rubbing at the spine tips and a two-inch closed tear near the upper spine. A nice copy, scarce in this condition. The 1954 Caldecott Medal Winner.
Seller: The Literary Lion,Ltd., Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Bemelmans, Ludwig. Madeline's Rescue. The Viking Press, New York, 1953.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing Published by the Viking Press in April 1953 with NO indication of later printings. This First Issue dustjacket has slight wear to the spine and edges. The book is in great shape. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp with light wear to the spine. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. A sharp copy of this scarce First Edition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Bemelmans, Ludwig. MADELINE'S RESCUE. The Viking Press, New York, 1953.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Description: First printing of the Caldecott award-winning Madeline book, in which a dog saves the day - an unusually nice copy, rare in this condition. 12'' x 8.75''. Original red cloth, brown stamped vignette. In original unclipped ($3.00) color pictorial dust jacket. Color pictorial endpapers. 56 pages. Gift inscription on copyright page, dated 25 December in year of publication. A bit of shallow chipping and edgewear to jacket.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Bemelmans, Ludwig. Madeline's Rescue. The Viking Press, New York, 1953.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with "Published by the Viking Press in April 1953" printed on the copyright page. A wonderful copy. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is vibrant in color with minor wear to the edges. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning. The boards are crisp and the lettering on the spine is present. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a beautiful copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION in collector's condition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Copy 1 of 151 signed copies illustrated with an original drawing, in this case a portrait of Bemelmans' poodle Little Bit, who accompanied the author-artist and his teenage daughter on the tour of Europe recounted in this comic memoir. 247 pages; illustrated from Bemelmans' line drawings. Bemelmans is best known for his Madeline series of children's picture books, but he wrote many books for adults, all characterized by gentle humor and the artist's knack for telling detail. First edition (first printing). Red cloth spine somewhat faded, else a fine, uncut copy (the pages are still sealed at the top edge) in what may be the original thin unprinted clear plastic jacket. In a scuffed and somewhat soiled slipcase. Scarce in this condition and very desirable with an original watercolor of a poodle bound in.
Seller: Downtown Brown Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.