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Lot 126
Sale 6285 - Books and Manuscripts
Mar 27, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$2,000 -
3,000
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[Children's & Illustrated] Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are
London: The Bodley Head, 1967. First English edition. Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated. Signed by Sendak on half-title page with original sketch of a Wild Thing. Publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards, lightly soiled, slightly cocked; illustrated endpapers; in publisher's dust-jacket, extremities worn with a few small tears. Hanrahan, p. 172
Sendak's most famous book, signed and with an original illustration of one of his famous Wild Things.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.


