Maurice Sendak

A Literary Feast

Maurice Sendak, 1983

A Wild Thing for Peace

Maurice Sendak, 1989

SENDAK, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. New York, 1963. Oblong 4 o. Illustrated by Sendak. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper boards (faint spots to upper cover); original Sendak dust jacket (light toning); cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION, REVIEW COPY with the pre-publication slip laid in as such and in a first issue jacket (no mention of this title winning the Caldecott award among other points). A surprisingly rare book in the correct jacket.

SENDAK, Maurice. Ten original pencil sketches for the animated version of Really Rosie , comprising composite sketches of two sheets per image on tracing paper making five complete drawings, each signed by Sendak, circa 1973. Each approximately 7½ x 10¼ inches (193 x 260 mm). Matted together and framed.

Maurice Sendak's 'Night' Trilogy—Signed

beginning with Where the Wild Things Are, 1963