Volume 35 in this running collection, with an obscure and fascinating Sendak contribution – illustrations for Margery Williams Bianco's VELVETEEN RABBIT.

First edition of this tale from the Brothers Grimm, glazed pictorial boards issue, published simultaneously with cloth/jacketed issue.

First edition of this charming New York Jewish picture book, a particularly bright and clean copy.

First printing of the Sendak edition, published after Sendak designed the costumes and sets for the Pacific Northwest Ballet's production of the NUTCRACKER, an excellent, sharp copy.

Signed limited first Sendak edition, one of only 250 numbered signed copies with a signed/limited lithograph by Sendak, this copy an out of series artist proof.

First edition of this story of a girl and her horse, illustrated by Sendak in a style inspired by William Blake, uncommon with an inscription by Krauss.

Association 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 – inscribed by Sendak to "legendary" children's book collector Herbert Hosmer.

First printing 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.

First printing of the Sendak-illustrated edition of this re-envisioned version of "Sleeping Beauty" by one of the pioneers of modern fantasy.

First printing, with reproductions of the original comic strips by Winsor McCay, including appreciations by Maurice Sendak, Art Spiegelman, Charles Schulz, Chuck Jones, and more.

Inscribed first printing of the dreamland bedtime adventure, with a sketch by Sendak of the protagonist Mickey dated in the year of publication.

First UK edition, published the same year as the first US, of the Caldecott Honor Award winner.