signed Hardcover
1985 · New York
by TESNOHLIDEK, Rudolf. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985. Hardcover. Fine. First edition thus, with pictures by Maurice Sendak. Publisher's presentation issue. Full gray morocco gilt. One of a handful of copies, perhaps as few as five, prepared by the publisher for presentation to the author, and for very limited distribution from the publisher. Bound from the unbound sheets of the signed and limited edition, this copy Signed by Sendak, but unnumbered. Possibly the only copy ever to reach the marketplace, this copy was retained by the binder. We've never seen another. Classic Czechoslovakian novel illustrated by Sendak. (Inventory #: 85327)