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Charlotte and the White Horse [SIGNED early Sendak]

Charlotte and the White Horse [SIGNED early Sendak]

Charlotte and the White Horse [SIGNED early Sendak]
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Charlotte and the White Horse [SIGNED early Sendak]

by Krauss, Ruth; Sendak, Maurice (illus)

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NY: Harper & Brothers, 1955. SIGNED first edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published NY: Harper & Brothers, 1955, first printing. [Hanrahan A18]. 12mo., 5 3/8" x 6 3/4", unpaginated 24pp., color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Sendak's first all-color illustrated book. Black cloth and pictorial paper covered boards, floral design decorative endpapers in color. Inscribed by Sendak to 5 year-old Sing-Si Schwartz on half-title. (Sing-Si later became a fine-arts photographer, and presumably photographed the laid in Sendak illustrations) : "Jul 70' , For Sing-Si, hello: Maurice Sendak" Laid in is a 1955 publication notice of the book in "The Villager", Greenwich Village, NY, Dec 15, 1955 featuring a photo of Sendak holding a dog. Three 4" x 6" duotone prints of Sendak's illustrations for the book laid in. Book is fine with no wear, dust jacket very good, $2 price on flap, mild age toning, darkening fade along the spine with a small chip off the crown, hairline split along dj spine with internal repair, inner front flap has offsetting from newspaper clipping. Three laid in prints fine. Uncommon signed.. Signed by Illustrator. 1st. Hard. Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Sendak, Maurice. 12mo.

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Bookseller
The Wild Muse US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
006590
Title
Charlotte and the White Horse [SIGNED early Sendak]
Author
Krauss, Ruth; Sendak, Maurice (illus)
Illustrator
Sendak, Maurice
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Edition
1st
Publisher
Harper & Brothers
Place of Publication
NY
Date Published
1955
Size
12mo
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
SCHWARTZ, SING-SI
Bookseller catalogs
Literary & Modern First Editions;

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