Where the Wild Things Are. [New York]: Harper & Row, 1963.
First edition, in second issue dust jacket with Caldecott medal, $3.50 price, and correct blurbs.
Oblong quarto. Unpaginated, with numerous illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Pictorial publisher's boards backed with gray cloth, illustrated endpapers, with original dust jacket. Previous owner's name to front turn-in and verso of front flyleaf. Faint toning to edges of boards, mild rubbing to extremities, but still a near fine copy. Jacket is somewhat toned, with tear along spine repaired with tape, but still quite presentable.
First edition of this beloved children's book, the winner of the 1964 Caldecott Award and the basis for the acclaimed 1999 film directed by Spike Jonze.
Hanrahan A58.
ID:
8107
$
600