Books with author Thomas Handforth

1938 date on Title Page (no later date listed) - Very Early Print of First Edition ~ Oversize (9.1"w x 12"tall) Illustrated Orange Cloth cover Hardcover - SEE my scan image Detail Page. Titling in White box to spine. Publisher's "Awarded the Caldecott Medal...." lettering bottom of front cover. Fully Illustrated Title Page and Illustrated by Author throughout (some full page). Unnumbered pages. Translated from the Chinese by Isaac Victor Headland. Last page with Publisher's Statement "This book has been hand-set in 18 point Weiss type by Invincible Typographers, Inc. The illustrations by the author were specially reproduced on copper plates". (Pub by Doubleday & Co., Inc., Garden City, NY) No dust jacket. ~ Cover with light soiling (mostly to back cover). Has a little wear at far spine ends and corner tips. Exlib w/few markings. Pages are mostly clean with some light soiling to a few also a few very short Closed page edge tears repaired w/clear tape. 3 small drawings on one page not affecting text or illustration. Binding is square and tight. VG- ....Very Scare Early Print of this 1939 Caldecott Award Winner.

Charming children's story of a little Chinese girl and her experiences at the New Year's Fair.... Girls can't go to the New Year Fair in the city, but Mei Li slips away with her brother and goes. They get home in time to greet the Kitchen God who comes at midnight. Mei Li no longer has her lucky pennies nor her lucky marbles, but she is the princess of her home. Recipient of the Caldecott Medal in 1939, the second ever awarded.

Excerpt from Elmo's Humorous Speaker: Uniform With "Elmo's Model Speaker," "Elmo's Children's Speaker," and "Two Thousand and Ten Choice Quotations"It is hardly needful to say that between the gen uinely humorous and the merely comic, there is awide and impassable gulf. Clowns and buffoons - whether professional or otherwise - revel in the comic and grow uproarious in the outrages of burlesque; but they would find the realms Of the humorous dull and uninviting.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Life and Sayings of Theodore Roosevelt, the Twenty-Sixth President of the United StatesAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Elmo's Humorous Speaker: Uniform With "Elmo's Model Speaker," "Elmo's Children's Speaker," and "Two Thousand and Ten Choice Quotations"It is hardly needful to say that between the gen uinely humorous and the merely comic, there is awide and impassable gulf. Clowns and buffoons - whether professional or otherwise - revel in the comic and grow uproarious in the outrages of burlesque; but they would find the realms Of the humorous dull and uninviting.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.