Buy this book on-line SENDAK**,MAURICE: : WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE.[25th Anniversary Edition.]US.(NY) HarperCollins Publishers,1991. ISBN No ISBN.
US,oblong 8vo HB,no dw/dj,1st edn thus.
[First and originally published US,1963 and first UK HB edn in 1967.Believed to be a US edn of the UK's 25th Anniversary edn - purely from the publishing date of 1991, where it's stated copyright renewed then and further states 'Printed in the United States of America'.There is also NO Library of Congress Cataloguing-of-
Publication Data numbers,nor an ISBN.] A black ink,Christmas gift presentation inscrptn to half-title,and minus it's dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour pictorial artwork by Maurice Sendak,paper
-covered illustrated bds with grey lettering to front bd.Generally sharp-cornered with some inevitable but miniscule rubbing to both front+rear bottom corners and an unlettered,grey cloth blind spine/backstrip and immaculate colour pictorial illustrated eps.US,oblong 8vo HB,no dw/dj,1st edn thus,40pp [unpaginated] includes half-title page, colour pictorial illustrated double-page title page,7 single page colour illustrations with text on opposite page, 3 vertical 3/4's double-page colour illustrations with text to facing page,4 horizontal 3/4's double-page colour illustrations with text below the illustration,and 3 double-page colour ilus without any text.
A highly collected and prolific children's book illustrator,and an unusual item in SENDAK's bold style and will be an important and welcome addition to the SENDAK canon.
Maurice Bernard Sendak (b.1928) New York, USA.American illustrator,studied at Lafayette High School,subsequently working as a window-dresser and enjoying his first major success as an illustrator with Ruth Krauss's 'A Hole is to Dig' (1952).Best known for his 1963 picture book,'Where the Wild Things Are.'
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