SENDAK, Maurice. Where the Wild Things are. [New York]: Harper & Row, 1963. Oblong 4o. Illustrated in color by Maurice Sendak. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards, dust jacket with Caldecott medal gilt seal on upper panel (small portion of spine panel missing, some age darkening and light wear to edges). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, INSCRIBED BY SENDAK WITH AN INK SKETCH OF MAX on half title: "For Greg Keith Boo! Maurice Sendak." The Winner of the 1964 Caldecott Award for the most distinguished picture book of the year, the earliest copies were recalled to affix the Caldecott Medal seal. -- Hector Protector and As I Went Over the Water. New York: Harper & Row, 1965. Oblong 8o. Illustrated in color by Maurice Sendak. Original cloth-backed pictoral boards. INSCRIBED BY SENDAK WITH AN INK SKETCH: on half-title: "For Eros hello Maurice Sendak." -- and one other.