THE MIAMI GIANT
(1995)
Signed first edition of this humorous story of a dancing giant from Miami making his theater debut, by two Caldecott Medal winners.
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Original art of a Wild Thing and Mickey Mouse
1987
Original signed pen-and-ink drawing by Sendak, depicting Mickey Mouse looking up to a Wild Thing.
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
1963
Lovely first edition of the subversive Caldecott-award winner, in the rare original first-issue dust jacket.
CHARLOTTE AND THE WHITE HORSE
[2001]
Lovely signed reprint of this story of a girl and her horse, illustrated by Sendak in a style inspired by William Blake.
CHARLOTTE AND THE WHITE HORSE
(1955)
First edition of this story of a girl and her horse, illustrated by Sendak in a style inspired by William Blake.
OPEN HOUSE FOR BUTTERFLIES
(1960)
First edition of Krauss's follow-up to A HOLE IS TO DIG, in which she collects her observations of children's innovative approach to word invention and turns them into a book of poetry.
THE JUNIPER TREE
(1973)
First edition this collection of Grimm fairy tales specially selected by Sendak, with four translated by Randall Jarrell, fine in original jackets and slipcase.
THE MIAMI GIANT
(1995)
First edition of this humorous story of a dancing giant from Miami making his theater debut, by two Caldecott Medal winners.
HIGGLETY PIGGLETY POP!
(1967)
First edition of this Sendak work based on an old Mother Goose rhyme, featuring great full-page illustrations.
THE BAT-POET
(1964)
Signed later printing of Jarrell's tender and melancholy children's story, meticulously illustrated and signed by Maurice Sendak.
THE MOON JUMPERS
(1959)
Sendak-signed later printing of this classic snapshot of a summer night, a 1960 Caldecott Honor Book.
DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: Adventures And Misadventures In The Realm of Children's Literature
1971
First printing of this study of popular children's literature, with a chapter on and illustrated by Sendak.
A HOLE IS TO DIG
(1952)
Inscribed first edition, later state, of the commercial and critical success that established Sendak's talent as an illustrator and Krauss's reputation for capturing child-like lyricism – an especially nice copy inscribed by Krauss.
IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN
(1970)
Later printing of the dreamland bedtime adventure and Caldecott Honor book, a Harper & Row file copy retained for their School Department Library.
A HOLE IS TO DIG
(1952)
First edition, later state, of the commercial and critical success that established Sendak's talent as an illustrator and Krauss's reputation for capturing child-like lyricism.
THE ART OF MAURICE SENDAK: 1980 to the Present
(2003)
Signed first edition of this gorgeous compendium of Sendak's work across mediums — with text by his friend and collaborator, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner.
WE ARE ALL IN THE DUMPS WITH JACK AND GUY
(1993)
First edition, featuring two Mother Goose rhymes interpreted by Sendak and updated to reflect the 1990s.
THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN
(1985)
First edition in English of the Czech fairy tale and the basis for Leoš Janáček's 1923 opera.
THE ART OF MAURICE SENDAK
(1984)
Inscribed early edition of this essential Sendak reference work, signed and presented by Sendak.
BRUNDIBAR
(2003)
Doubly signed first printing of this illustrated retelling of the 1938 Czech opera, performed in the Terezin concentration camp by its original cast of orphaned Jewish children imprisoned there alongside composer Hans Krása.
YOU CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE
(1957)
First UK edition of Nash's urbane and polysyllabic verses, with illustrations and dust jacket by Maurice Sendak.
HECTOR PROTECTOR AND AS I WENT OVER THE WATER
[circa 1981]
Signed later printing of these two traditional nursery rhymes, enriched and transformed by Sendak's Nutshell Library-esque illustrations.
MR. RABBIT AND THE LOVELY PRESENT
(1962)
Signed early printing of Zolotow's classic 1962 children's story, with original signature by Sendak, whose eerie illustrations made this one of the seven Caldecott Honor Books of his career.
MR. RABBIT AND THE LOVELY PRESENT
(1990)
Signed later printing of Zolotow's classic 1962 children's story, with original signature by Sendak, whose eerie illustrations made this one of the seven Caldecott Honor Books of his career.
SEVEN LITTLE MONSTERS
(1977)
Inscribed first US edition (and first English-language edition) of Sendak's illustrated picture book of monsters, originally created as a 1971 animated short for Sesame Street but deemed too scary for repeated showings.
