Jan 24, 2013 - Sale 2300

Sale 2300 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 540
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
MAURICE SENDAK. Krauss, Ruth. A Very Special House. Group of 3 editions. Illustrated by Sendak. 4to, boards, mild wear, mostly rubbing to edges; dust jackets, moderate soiling, scattered light edgewear. Other condition issues noted. New York, (1953); Tokyo, (1978)

Additional Details

First Trade Edition, First Issue, with blue sleeve on penultimate page, correct price of $1.75 and number runs on flaps. A bit of soiling to margins of preliminaries. Ex-library Joyce Y. Hanrahan, with her bookplate laid in Later edition, with corrected sleeve color and dust jacket with sun in upper right hand corner and priced $2.50. Signed by Sendak on title First Japanese Edition. signed by sendak and with a drawing of the boy with his back turned. Published by Iwanami Shoten, with slip laid in. All Hanrahan A8.