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Where The Wild Things Are. by Maurice SENDAK

Creator: Maurice Sendak
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

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SENDAK, Maurice.

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Where The Wild Things Are.
Stock Code 109057
New York, Harper & Row, 1963

Current price£8,500.00
The true first edition with the correct first state dustjacket.

A fine, well-preserved copy of what is perhaps the best-loved and most distinguished illustrated children's book of the 20th century, one that the American Institute of Graphic Arts called 'the perfect book.' With the Library of Congress catalogue number 63-21253 and 1963 copyright on title, and first state jacket with price $3.50 in upper right corner of inner flap and no mention of the Caldecott Medal.

First edition, first printing, with Library of Congress number 63-21253 and 1963 copyright on title; oblong 4to; illustrated in colour throughout; publisher's cloth-backed pictorial paper boards, front board with one small smudge, with the correct first state of the dustjacket with no mention of the Caldecott award, and a $3.50 price at top of front flap, this flap with three paragraphs of text, lower corner trimmed, slight dust-soiling, short closed tear to lower edge of front panel, a few trifling nicks, else a near-fine example.

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Documentation:	Documented elsewhere (similar item)
Period:	1950-1979
Condition:	Good.
Styles / Movements:	Mid Century
Dealer Reference #:	109057
Incollect Reference #:	661275

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