Maurice Sendak's Really Rosie Starring the Nutshell Kids
by Sendak, Maurice; King, Carole (Music); Bierhorst, Jane Byers (Design)
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG-
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New York/Evanston/London: Harper & Row, 1975. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Soft cover. VG-. Sendak, Maurice. Rosie from Brooklyn is back along with other of Sendak's favorite creatures & the Nutshell Kids, who have a magical day on their block set to the music of Carole King (whose lyrics follow the story). Book is based on the CBS television program of the same name, which first aired on 2/19/75, which itself was adapted from Sendak's "Nutshell Library." A FIRST EDITION, first printing from 1975 (with SBN, not later ISBN), this oblong softcover 8vo (10.75" x 9") has colorfully decorated wrappers, glued binding, 64 pages, illustrated by Sendak throughout the story, followed by King's musical scores, with lyrics by Sendak as well. Condition is VG- (minus): completely clean inside, with off-white pages that are unmarked. Externally, there is slight darkening to the white areas, particularly along spine edge, & dogearing to upper-outer corners of front cover & next several pages. Very slight, shallow creasing to lower-outer corner of same cover. Slight sticker pull to bottom inner corner of back cover. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, Weekends & holidays ship very next business day. SPECIAL: order any other Sendak books together for 20% off both & only $1.00 extra shipping per item!
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- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023301
- Title
- Maurice Sendak's Really Rosie Starring the Nutshell Kids
- Author
- Sendak, Maurice; King, Carole (Music); Bierhorst, Jane Byers (Design)
- Illustrator
- Sendak, Maurice
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing 1st Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York/Evanston/London
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- ILLUSTRATED ILLUSTRATIONS FANTASY FAIRY TALE CHILDREN PICTURE BOOKS THEATER PLAYS ACTING ACTORS SENDAK New York City fiction kids musicians carole king singer-songwriter 1970s
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children-Young Adult (YA) / Illustrated & Picture Books; Illustrated Books/Illustrators; Performing Arts: Theater/Dance/Music & Musicians;
Terms of Sale
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Gargoyle Books
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La Mesa, California
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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- First Edition
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....