SENDAK, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. New York: Harper & Row, 1963. Early printing, SIGNED BY SENDAK.
Sale 714 - Library of a Midwestern Collector
Nov 5, 2019
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SENDAK, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.
Oblong 4to. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards; in later dust jacket (slight soiling to extremities). Provenance: Edna Voigt (bookplate).
Early printing, SIGNED BY SENDAK on the half-title. Laid-in is a flexible vinyl gift recording of Where the Wild Things Are, distributed in 1970 by Weston Woods Studios in honor of Sendak receiving the Hans Christian Andersen Awards Illustrator’s Medal in 1970, with an accompanying printed letter from the studio and their promotional pamphlet. Grolier, One Hundred Books Famous in Children’s Literature 97 (NY, 1963 1st edition).
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