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SENDAK, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. [New York:] Harper & Row, 1963.
Oblong 4o. Illustrated in color by the author. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards (some very minor soiling); pictorial dust jacket (a few tears expertly repaired on verso, a few chips, some minor browning, price-clipped).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with no mention of the Caldecott Award on the dust jacket and with the three paragraph blurbs on the front and back flaps. When Sendak's story won the Caldecott Award in 1964, first printings of the book were recalled so the medal sticker could be placed on the dust jackets. Hanrahan A58. [With:] A plush toy Wild Thing (Crocodile Creek, 13.5" tall). (2)
Oblong 4
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with no mention of the Caldecott Award on the dust jacket and with the three paragraph blurbs on the front and back flaps. When Sendak's story won the Caldecott Award in 1964, first printings of the book were recalled so the medal sticker could be placed on the dust jackets. Hanrahan A58. [With:] A plush toy Wild Thing (Crocodile Creek, 13.5" tall). (2)