first edition Hardcover
1973 · New York
by Sendak, Maurice (Illustrator)
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt. Fine in near fine dust wrapper with small nicks at front cover lower corner and spine. Sendak, Maurice. Unpaginated. 22.5 x 15 cm. Signed presentation copy on free front endpaper in blue ink, "To David Greeve - Maurice Sendak Jan. 74." A tale from the Brothers Grimm illustrated with color plates on each page. (Inventory #: 21859)