MAURICE SENDAK SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF HIS 1963 CLASSIC ‘WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE’
Signed book: Where the Wild Things Are. First edition, with “Library of Congress catalog card number: 63-21253” on title page. NY: Harper & Row, 1963. Hardcover, 10 x 9.25. Signed on the half-title page in blue ballpoint, “Maurice Sendak.” Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG+/None. A superb example of this classic work. Very unusual to find a signed first edition of this title in such lovely condition.
First edition in first issue dust jacket with $3.50 price and three-paragraph blurb on front flap, three paragraphs on rear flap, and no Caldecott medal, nor mention of one on the dust jacket. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated.