SENDAK, MAURICE. Where the Wild Things Are. [New York]: Harper & Row 1963. Oblong 4to, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, dust jacket with Caldecott medal gilt seal on upper panel (portion of spine panel missing, some age-darkening and wear at edges). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, INSCRIBED BY SENDAK WITH AN INK SKETCH OF MAX on the half-title: "first printing recalled by publisher after receiving the '64 Caldecott medal, To stick medal on!" and signed below the drawing of Max, "Maurice Sendak." Illustrated in color by 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.