Title: Hansi; Friendly Neighbors; Andy and the Lion; The Color Kittens; Madeline and the Gypsies (lot of five vintage children's books).

Author: Ludwig Bemelmans (Hansi; Madeline and the Gypsies); James Daugherty (Andy and the Lion); additional uncredited contributors associated with Rand McNally and Company and Artists and Writers Guild, Inc. for the Friendly Neighbors reader and The Color Kittens.

Publisher: The Viking Press, Inc., New York (Hansi; Andy and the Lion; Madeline and the Gypsies); Rand McNally and Company; Simon and Schuster, Inc., Rockefeller Center, New York 20.

Edition and printing: Hansi copyright 1934 by Ludwig Bemelmans with a printing history listing first publication in October 1934 and a sixth printing in November 1955; Friendly Neighbors copyright 1950 by Rand McNally and Company; Andy and the Lion copyright 1938 by James Daugherty with subsequent printings through October 1954; The Color Kittens copyright 1953 and 1949 by Simon and Schuster, Inc., and Artists and Writers Guild, Inc.; Madeline and the Gypsies copyright 1958 and 1959 by Ludwig Bemelmans and published in 1959.

Binding: Mixed lot of five English-language hardcovers with illustrated cloth or paper-covered boards and cloth spine strips, including three Viking Press picture books, one Rand McNally state-issued school reader, and one large-format color concept book The Color Kittens subtitled Child's First Book About Colors.

Subject/Genre: Mid-century children's literature and picture books featuring European boarding school adventures, imaginative animal tales, early reading instruction, and playful explorations of color and everyday family life.

Special attributes: Hansi and Andy and the Lion were printed in the United States of America and distributed in Canada by The Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd.; Friendly Neighbors includes a printed state textbook property page headed THIS BOOK IS THE PROPERTY OF THE STATE with usage rules such as PUPILS MUST NOT WRITE ON OR MARK ANY PAGE OF THIS TEXTBOOK and story sections including The Wish Goes to Work, All in a Letter, and A Wish That Came on Soft Feet; The Color Kittens was designed and produced by The Sandpiper Press and Artists and Writers Guild, Inc.; Madeline and the Gypsies notes that a shorter version of the story appeared in McCall's magazine and that it was lithographed in U.S.A. by Livermore & Knight Co.

Physical details: Assorted octavo and oversized vintage children's hardcovers printed in the United States with black-and-white and full-color illustrations, including Bemelmans' distinctive line-and-wash artwork for Hansi and Madeline, James Daugherty's energetic brown-and-black drawings of a farm boy and his lion, bold mid-century color art of kittens mixing paints in The Color Kittens, and Rand McNally's early reader layouts combining simple text with two- and four-color scenes.

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