Jun 17, 2015 - Sale 2388

Sale 2388 - Lot 75

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) SENDAK, MAURICE. Where the Wild Things Are. Color illustrations by Sendak. Oblong 8vo, green cloth-backed pictorial boards, corners bumped, mild scattered staining, edges toned; few pages smudged; lacking dust jacket. (New York): Harper & Row, 1963

Additional Details

first edition, signed by sendak on the title-page. Includes a laid-in original ink sketch on envelope flap, likely dating from circa 1955 (The Tin Fiddle); inscribed "Best of luck!!" to unknown recipient with Sendak's Charles Street address above. Hanrahan A58.