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First Edition Identification<\/h3>\n

Madeline<\/strong><\/em>, written & illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans; Viking, 1939<\/h4>\n

1940 Caldecott Honor Award<\/h4>\n

Children’s Picturebook Price Guide Value:\u00a0 $4,000 VG+<\/h3>\n

Essential identifying point<\/strong><\/u>
\nTitle page:\u00a0 Line with \u201cSimon & Schuster\u201d followed by line with \u201c1939.\u201d<\/h4>\n

<\/p>\n

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Non-essential<\/u><\/strong>
\nDJ flap price “$2.00”<\/h4>\n

The myth has propagated on the internet that the first printing book includes an error that was corrected in subsequent printings, with 12 girls \u2018breaking bread\u2019 instead of 11 (with Madeline in the hospital, there is supposed to be only 11 girls dining).\u00a0 This \u201c12 girl error\u201d was used in many, many subsequent printings, and is therefore not a method to identifying a true first printing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First Edition Identification Madeline, written & illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans; Viking, 1939 1940 Caldecott Honor Award Children’s Picturebook Price Guide Value:\u00a0 $4,000 VG+ Essential identifying point Title page:\u00a0 Line with \u201cSimon & Schuster\u201d followed by line with \u201c1939.\u201d Non-essential DJ flap price “$2.00” The myth has propagated on the internet that the first printing book … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caldecott-honor-books","category-first-edition-identification-points"],"yoast_head":"\nMadeline (1939) - Collecting First Edition Children's Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/1stedition.net\/blog\/2006\/madeline-1939\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Madeline (1939) - Collecting First Edition Children's Books\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"First Edition Identification Madeline, written & illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans; Viking, 1939 1940 Caldecott Honor Award Children’s Picturebook Price Guide Value:\u00a0 $4,000 VG+ Essential identifying point Title page:\u00a0 Line with \u201cSimon & Schuster\u201d followed by line with \u201c1939.\u201d Non-essential DJ flap price “$2.00” The myth has propagated on the internet that the first printing book ... 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