Buy this book on-line SENDAK,MAURICE: : IN THE NIGHT KITCHENLONDON.BODLEY HEAD,1972. ISBN 0060254904.
UK,Qrto,original wraps,1st thus.Qrto wraps,colouring book.N/FINE.20pp [unpaginated],coloured pictorial wraps.NO pages inside are coloured in at all.
Previous owner has however,neatly coloured,only 3 letters in the title on ffe.Expensive as a US 1st,less so,as UK HB,1st edn.See also my book ID's rja641316 ('Where The Wild Things Are'),
rja664817 (OUTSIDE OVER THERE),for other Sendak written+illustrated titles.For SENDAK only illustrated titles see rja278 (BEERTJIE - LITTLE BEAR,S.AFRICA),
rja31948 (THE MIAMI GIANT),rja629216 and rja644116 (copies of BEARS by Ruth Krauss.).
A highly collected and prolific children's book illustrator and this,an unusual item/ephemera in SENDAK's bold style and will be an important and welcome addition to the SENDAK canon.
Maurice Bernard Sendak (b.1928) New York,USA.American illustrator,studied at Lafayette High School,subsequently working as a window-dresser and enjoying his first major success as an illustrator with Ruth Krauss's 'A Hole is to Dig' (1952).Best known for his 1963 picture book,'Where the Wild Things Are.'
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