Ludwig Bemelmans. Fifi. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1940.

Price: US$3221.18 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Original pictorial boards have some edge wear; corners bumped, one or two scuffs and marks to rear board. Internally in excellent condition with faint age toning to pages and a finger smudge to the margin of page 11. Boldly signed and dated by author to blank end paper opposite title page. Lacks dust jacket. Spine replaced in black goat skin with gilt title and author to spine replicating the original.

Seller: Moriarty's, Grimsby, LINCO, United Kingdom

LUDWIG BEMELMANS, SIGNED with Full Signature by Author on Title pg in Black Ink, has colorful illustrated endpapers OF REPEATED BLACK CAT WITH 4 EYES & White outline poodle has Former Owner Pencil Name, With Internals in B/W & COLOR. FIFI , A rare Bemelmans title, Boldly SIGNED with Full Signature by Author Illustrator on title pg in Black Ink,, this is the adventure of Lord Fimple Fample's poodle that is kidnapped in Africa by natives but is eventually reunited with it's family.. NY: Simon & Schuster , Reehl Litho Co,, 1940.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: HARDBACK NODustjacket, 1940 on copyright page and no additional printings listed, 1st Edition, 1st Printing , VG-/GOOD-, AS-IS, NOJACKET, 4to, (9 1/4 x 12 1/4") pictorial Color boards with Red Cloth spine, Much rub of edges bookcvr and tip wear rub & Light scuff rub edges & Back Cover show some wear scratch marks & Light Stain, Interior Nice tight, Clean Light Wear, FOX, UNPAGINATED ,Simply told in verse and marvelously illustrated in bright color on every page., Color illustration on front board of Fifi sitting in a High Back Blue Chair with Large Red Bow in Her Hair, with her beau, a Dog, sitting on the floor beside the chair. Illustration of Fifi alone on back board.

Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.

BEMELMANS, Ludwig. Fifi. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1940.

Price: US$5000.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Illustrated in color throughout. Folio, pictorial boards. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1940). The adventures of a small dog in Africa. Presentation copy signed "Ludwig" with a half- page ink drawing of Fifi writing the inscription. The front hinge is very slightly cracked and there is a small chip at the top of the spine, otherwise a fine copy of an uncommon book. Pieces of the dust wrapper are laid in.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.