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Sendak | Maurice

Where The Wild Things Are

First Edition | First Printing

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Description

First edition, first printing of Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, in first state dust jacket.

Oblong quarto, [38pp]. Illustrated boards, olive green cloth spine. Faint soiling to paper boards, internally clean. On title page, contains Library of Congress number 63-21253. Pictorial endpapers, bright boards and clean illustrated text. In the publisher’s first issue dust jacket, $3.50 price on front flap, code “40-80 / 1163” on bottom of front flap, three paragraph blurb on front flap and no mention of the Caldecott Award. Pin holes on corners of flaps, where dust jacket was previously displayed, light sunning to spine and toning to white borders.

A very good example of the true first state jacket.

(Hanrahan A58)

Additional information

Location Published

[New York]

Publisher

Harper & Row, Publishers

Edition

First Edition, First Printing

Date Published

1963

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Near Fine

Jacket Condition

Very Good

Author

Sendak | Maurice

Author Display

Maurice Sendak