the true first edition
SENDAK, Maurice.
Where The Wild Things Are.
New York, Harper & Row, 1963.
A fine, well-preserved copy of what is perhaps the best-loved and most distinguished illustrated children's book of the 20th century, one that the American Institute of Graphic Arts called 'the perfect book.' With the Library of Congress catalogue number 63-21253 and 1963 copyright on title, and first state jacket with price $3.50 in upper right corner of inner flap and no mention of the Caldecott Medal.
First edition, first printing, with Library of Congress number 63-21253 and 1963 copyright on title; oblong 4to; illustrated in colour throughout; publisher's cloth-backed pictorial paper boards, front board with one small smudge, with the correct first state of the dust-jacket with no mention of the Caldecott award, and a $3.50 price at top of front flap, this flap with three paragraphs of text, lower corner trimmed, slight dust-soiling, short closed tear to lower edge of front panel, a few trifling nicks, else a near-fine example.
Hanrahan A58.
Stock code 109057
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Where The Wild Things Are.
ROWLING, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
2003
The first edition, first impression of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, a near-fine copy in the original dust-jacket
$342.00
MILNE, A.A.; SHEPARD, E.H. (illustrator).
Now We Are Six.
1927.
A handsome first edition of Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne with illustrations by E.H. Shepard.
$479.00
CARROLL, Lewis [pseud. DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge]; TENNIEL, John (illustrator).
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [with] Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice Found There.
1885.
A handsomely illustrated copy of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass.
$2,052.00
GRAHAME, Kenneth; SHEPARD, Ernest H. (illustrator)
The Wind in the Willows.
1931.
A charming copy of the perennial children's classic, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and illustrated by E.H. Shepard
$787.00
