Mei Li.

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.