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Viking Press, NY, 1936. First Edition. Hard Cover. [1], 96 p., illus. incl. color, pictorial yellow endpapers; 25 cm. Set in Belgium, where, "while it rained for three weeks, Mr. Bemelmans wrote a story to go with the pictures [of Bruges], about the children and Mr. Coggeshall, a lemon soufflé, and a French general who eats cucumber salad in bed in the middle of the night, about a submarine, the Mayor of Bruges, swans, and a frog that lives in a bottle, about the carillon, and about how to come home after falling into the Canal." This book, which was awarded the Newbery prize, contains the first appearance of Madeleine, fully developed as a character. Bound in red cloth, spine stamped in gold, blindstamped swan on front; color pictorial dj edges & corners worn, small chips to top edge & top of spine, endpapers darkened at hinge; dj good+, book VG+. stock#44389.

[London], Chancellor Press, [1986]. Hard Cover. 64 p., illus., 24 cm. Facsimile of the first edition of 1889. "Over seventy-five games are described , from such old favorites as 'See-Saw' and 'Hide and Seek' to other less well-known games popular in Victorian times." Stock# 34,343. Fine, pictorial boards/ no dj as issued.