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Mei Li - 1st Edition/1st Printing
de Handforth, Thomas
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Librería
-
Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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New York: Junior Books; Doubleday Doran & Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1938. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. First edition/first printing, bound in orange cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial end papers in Fine condition. Illustrated, Very Good dust-jacket, with a couple of chips and tears along the edges. SIGNED on second end paper by author and illustrator Thomas Handforth. Overall a superior copy; Winner of the 1939 Caldecott Medal, the second book to receive this award. Handforth's tale of Mei Li, a little Chinese girl with a candle-top pit tail, whose name is pronounced so easily as though it were spelled May Lee, took her lucky treasures and went to the New Year Fair with her brother, San Yu; B&W Illustrations; 4to ; [52] pages; Signed by Author .
Sinopsis
Mei Li is a book by Thomas Handforth. Released by Doubleday, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1939.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 29537
- Título
- Mei Li - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Autor
- Handforth, Thomas
- Ilustrador
- Illustrated by Thomas Handforth
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Cloth
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edición
- First Edition; First Printing
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Junior Books; Doubleday Doran & Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1938
- Palabras clave
- Collectible Out-of-print Rare, Literature Picture Book, Chinese Art Folklore Legends
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Awarded Illustrators; By Year Of Issue / 1930s; Awarded Books / Caldecott Medal;
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
