Mei by Handforth Thomas, Signed (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Thomas Handforth (illustrator). 1st Edition. (Caldecott Medal). Handforth, Thomas. Mei Li. NY: Doubleday Doran & Company 1938. 1st Edition (stated). 12 1/8 x 9. [48] pp. Orange cloth lettered with gold Chinese lettering on front cover, black lettering (faded) on spine. Cover soiled and spotted, cloth worn at the spine ends and corner tips. Illustrated end pages. No jacket. Good copy. Signed by Handforth on the half-title page, with Caldecott award bookplate above his signature. Winner of the 1939 Caldecott Medal, the second book to be presented with the Medal. Shipped in a well-padded box. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine hardcover in Fine unclipped dust jacket in brodart. Signed by Handforth on the second free end paper. First Edition later printing. Unpaginated. Clean, tight and bright. No writing or marks. We wrap and box our books for shipping. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Winner of the 1939 Caldecott Medal. Illustrated by the author. An early printing. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. Areas of uneven sun fading to cloth covered boards, else very good in orange cloth with gilt lettering. No dust jacket.; Signed by Author.

First edition. Signed first edition of this beautifully illustrated Caldecott winner (the second year of the award) from Thomas Handforth. Mei Liwas based on Handforth's experiences in China on a Guggenheim Fellowship working as a graphic artist, where he spent six years. 4to, unpaginated. Signed by Handforth on the front flyleaf. Orange cloth boards stamped in gilt on front cover and spine in illustrated jacket. Gilt dulled, some foxing along joints. Jacket rubbed along folds, spine faded and with some shallow chipping along upper edge, spine and corners. Very good.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First printing. Signed first edition of this early Caldecott winner, the story of a little Chinese girl who is determined to show that she belongs at the New Year Fair - this copy owned by a librarian on the Caldecott Award Selection Committee. Published in the midst of growing American sympathies for the Chinese as the Japanese invaded, MEI LI draws on Thomas Handforth's own experiences living in China on a Guggenheim fellowship. Handforth taught himself lithography in order to have more control over the artistic process involved, which comes through beautifully in his illustrations of Mei Li as she adventures through the New Year Fair. MEI LI earned the second Caldecott Medal ever awarded in 1939; this book also contains the ownership signature of Marian Young, a prominent librarian based in Detroit and member of the Caldecott Award Selection Committee, of which she would later become Chairman. A terrific association. 12'' x 9''. Original orangle cloth binding with gilt lettering. Original unclipped ($2.00) color pictorial dust jacket. Yellow and orange cartographic endpapers, showing the route from MEI LI's home to the city. Illustrated in black and white. [26] leaves. Signed by Handforth to half-title page, with Caldecott Medal bookplate pasted in above. Jacket with chips to spine ends, several closed tears and attendant tape repairs to verso. Book with a bit of soil to edges, a few leaves with faint fingersoil. Firm. Very good plus in very good jacket. Signed.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto, unpaginated. In Very Good condition with Very Good minus dust jacket. Dust jacket orange with pictorial imagery, though spine and extremities of boards have faded to yellow. Spine with black titling. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; price uncut: "$2.00." Chips missing to head and tail of spine, with head chipping extending slightly onto both covers. Minor chipping and wear to extremities. Board edges slightly faded at extremities. Pictorial end papers. Signed flat by Handforth on second free endpaper. Caldecott award sticker affixed to half-title page. RB Consignment. Shelved in Case 14. Mei Li was the second recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration, which it won in 1939. Based on "the real Mei Li, a little girl living in the next compound in Peiping" (rear flap), Mei Li ventures out to attend the Chinese New Year festivities and attempts to prove her brother wrong, when he asks "What can a girl do at the Fair?" (page [6]). 1347583. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

First edition, signed by the author on the first blank. Mei Li won the Caldecott Medal for 1939 and is an early example of a US children's book with an Asian main character. This copy has the bookplate of Julia F. Carter (1884-1980), the first full-time children's librarian at the New York Public Library. Carter was on the Caldecott selection committee in its early years. Quarto. Illustrations in text. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover with calligraphic title in gilt, pictorial endpapers. With dust jacket. Spine ends and head of boards sunned; jacket unclipped, spine sunned, some chipping and closed tears: a very good copy in like jacket.