Description
The first edition, first printing of The Bat-Poet by Randall Jarrell, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak.
Octavo, [4], 43pp. Brown cloth, title in gilt on spine, blind-stamped illustration on front cover. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white drawings by Maurice Sendak. In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, with all points by Hanrahan, including the $2.75 retail price and 74762 code on the front flap, bright illustration, a fine example.
(Hanrahan A60) (Wright A14a)
A children’s fable by poet and critic Randall Jarrell, following a young bat who stays awake during the day and becomes a poet, observing the world apart from the other bats. Published the same year Sendak received the Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are.
