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Lot 233

Sale 5792 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Jan 30, 2020 8:00AM ET
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[Children's & Illustrated] [Sendak, Maurice] Group of Nine Titles Illustrated by Maurice Sendak

Including: 1. Eidinoff, Maxwell Leigh, and Ruchlis, Hyman. Atomics For the Millions. New York: McGraw/Whittlesey, (1947). Second printing. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in red and in gilt, in original dust-jacket with light wear to extremities, price-clipped. Sendak's first illustrated book. Hanrahan A1 2. Ayme, Marcel. The Wonderful Farm. New York: Harper Brothers, (1951). 8vo. Publisher's red cloth, in original dust-jacket with wear to extremities and loss to spine head. Scarce. Hanrahan A2 3. Garvey, Robert. Good Shabbos, Everybody. United Synagogue Commission, 1951. First edition. 4to. Publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards, some wear and soiling. Hanrahan A3 4. Sawyer, Ruth. Maggie Rose: Her Birthday Christmas. New York: Harper Brothers, (1952). First edition. 8vo. Publisher's pink cloth, in original dust-jacket with some repairs. Hanrahan A4 5. Krauss, Ruth. A Hole is to Dig: A First Book of First Definitions. New York: Harper & Brothers, (1952). 12mo. Five copies (first edition in dust-jacket; first edition lacking dust jacket; 1980 reprint signed by Sendak; 1989 reprint in boards; 1989 reprint in wrappers). Hanrahan A5.

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