Madeline's Rescue

US-only true first: The Viking Press, New York, April 1953 — the census claim is correct. The first British edition followed from Derek Verschoyle, London, 1953 (the same house had issued the London 'Madeline' in 1952); a later London issue under the André Deutsch/Derek Verschoyle imprint dated 1957 is catalogued by dealers as an early printing of the British edition and is not a first of the text. Bemelmans was an American author published from New York, and the Viking issue is the collected first. Inventory note carried from the census: only the 1939 'Madeline' is held, not this title. Later Viking, Puffin and Penguin reissues (e.g. ISBN 9780140566512) are reprints.