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Mei Li
by Handforth, Thomas
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc, 1945. Later printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Folio. Unpaginated. Green cloth with gold Chinese characters on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. Red and yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $2.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With several full-page black and white illustrations, including on the title page. The winner of the 1939 Caldecott Award. A short inscription on the free front endpaper; jacket with a few chips and sunning to its spine panel.
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Evening Star Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000013841
- Title
- Mei Li
- Author
- Handforth, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1945
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About the Seller
Evening Star Books
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Madison, Wisconsin
About Evening Star Books
We buy and sell rare and fine books in many fields. Our interests include philosophy, modern first editions, and works of historical or intellectual interest. In addition to bookselling, we regularly do valuations and appraisals for non-IRS purposes. Evening Star Books is a Limited Liability Company.
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- New
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- Folio
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- Title Page
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- Jacket
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
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