Books with title MEI LI

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.