I SAW ESAU: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 1992. Fine in near fine jacket.. Signed first US trade edition of this book of traditional nursery rhymes, newly illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Originally the first book published by the Opies in 1947, this new edition contains a new introduction by Iona Opie and hundreds of full- and partial-page Sendak illustrations, exuberantly well-suited to this authentic record of childhood insults, incantations, and transgressive rhymes. 7.25'' x 5.25''. Original green boards with gilt-lettered spine. Brown endpapers. In original unclipped ($19.95) pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Sendak throughout in color and in brown line. Hanrahan A137. 160 pages. Signed by Sendak on half-title page. A few small scuff marks and minor closed tears to jacket edges.