Charlotte and the White Horse [SIGNED early Sendak]

Krauss, Ruth; Sendak, Maurice (illus)

Published by Harper & Brothers, NY, 1955

About this Item

SIGNED first edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published NY: Harper & Brothers, 1955, first printing. [Hanrahan A18]. 12mo., 5 3/8" x 6 3/4", unpaginated 24pp., color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Sendak's first all-color illustrated book. Black cloth and pictorial paper covered boards, floral design decorative endpapers in color. Inscribed by Sendak to 5 year-old Sing-Si Schwartz on half-title. (Sing-Si later became a fine-arts photographer, and presumably photographed the laid-in Sendak illustrations) : "Jul 70' , For Sing-Si, hello: Maurice Sendak" Laid in is a 1955 publication notice of the book in "The Villager", Greenwich Village, NY, Dec 15, 1955 featuring a photo of Sendak holding a dog. Three 4" x 6" duotone prints of Sendak's illustrations for the book laid in. Book is fine with no wear, dust jacket very good, $2 price on flap, mild age toning, darkening fade along the spine with a small chip off the crown, hairline split along dj spine with internal repair, inner front flap has offsetting from newspaper clipping. Three laid in prints fine. Uncommon signed.

Seller Inventory # 006590

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Charlotte and the White Horse [SIGNED early Sendak]
• Publisher: Harper & Brothers, NY
• Publication Date: 1955
• Language: English
• Binding: Hard
• Illustrator: Sendak, Maurice
• Edition: 1st
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Illustrator(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Children's
  • Literary & Modern First Editions