Jan 24, 2013 - Sale 2300

Sale 2300 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
MAURICE SENDAK. Brentano, Clemens. The Tale of Gockel, Hinkel & Gackeliah. Translated by Doris Orgel. Illustrated by Sendak. 4to, cloth-backed boards, spine ends browned; first issue dust jacket Priced $3.95, light wear, faint spotting along edges. New York: Random House, (1961)

Additional Details

first edition, first issue, inscribed and signed "mack" by sendak with an ink drawing of his terrier jennie, dated "Dec. 24, `61" in his hand, and additionally signed by Sendak's partner, Eugene [Glynn]. Hanrahan A44.