Apr 14, 2005 - Sale 2038

Sale 2038 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 9,775
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
TRUE FIRST PRINTING SENDAK, MAURICE. Where the Wild Things Are. Illustrated in color by Sendak. Oblong 8vo, green cloth-backed pictorial boards, mild soiling, mostly to turn-ins; scattered light thumb soiling on a few pages; original first issue dust jacket, lightly toned and with only minor creasing to edges, lower inside corner of front flap clipped. Overall a bright copy. New York, 1963

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lovely copy of the true first edition, first printing of sendak's classic tale.