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 thus, first printing: Krauss's book from 1948 is reinterpreted by Maurice Sendak with color illustrations filling every page.

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.

Original signed pen-and-ink drawing by Sendak, depicting Mickey Mouse looking up to a Wild Thing

First printing of Sendak's illustrated picture book of monsters.

Inscribed early printing of the Caldecott Award winner, inscribed by Sendak with a wonderful 4.5'' pen drawing of a wild thing, dated 1975.