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NY: HARPER AND BROTHERS , 1952. EARLY PRINTING . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. SENDAK MAURICE . A VERY EARLY PRINTING WITH TEAL BINDING AND 1.50 ORIGINAL PRICE GRRR IS MENTIONED SOLID CLEAN AND BRIGHT NICE CLEAN TEXTBLOCK AND ENDPAPERS NEAT PENCIL PREVIOUS OWNERS SIGNATURE LIGHT WEAR TO TIPS BRIGHT COVER JACKET IS WORN UNCLIPPED BUT SPLIT ALONG THE SPINE WITH SOME DISCOLORATION / BROWING AROUND THE EDGES A NICE COPY OF THIS EARLY PRINTING IN A RATHER ROUGH JACKET

.......: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Acceptable/NO DUSTJACKET. (1952). First Edition, Second State. Hardcover. 16mo., unpaginated, cover rubbed, bumped, frayed, pencil scribbling throughout, hinges weak .

USA: Harper & Row, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Maurice Sendak. 1952 Copyright, later printing with SBN No. 060234059. Book with light green background and black cloth binding. Clean with no writing or remainder mark. Green illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. No pagination. 6 3/4" x 5 5/16". 24 leaves with 2 free endpapers. No. 30-70 on bottom corner of dust jacket. Heavy stock paper pages in nice condition. Two tiny indents on bottom edges and wear area of approx. 1" on top edge. Dust jacket with paper wear on spine and rubbing to extremities. Clipped price corners.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. First edition, second printing ("Grr-r-r" on p. [23]), small square 8vo, pp. 48; vignette title page, printed in red and black throughout; price-clipped dust jacket with several small cracks and breaks; a very good copy. Illustrated throughout by Maurice Sendak.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952 Illustrated boards with teal backstrip, lt. rubbing to bottom edge. Dust jacket is good with wear at spine, a few very small losses and slightly age-toned. Interior of book is clean and crisp. First issue point met. A wonderful book of definitions as a child might imagine; blissful b&w drawings by Sendak pepper every page. First issue is uncommon and this is a nice example. (See Hanrahan A4). First Edition. Very Good/Good. 12mo.

[New York]: Harper and Brothers, 1952. Boards. Near fine/very good. Maurice SENDAK. First edition, later printing. 12mo; [48pp]; quarter-bound green cloth, pictorial boards in green, black and sepia; illustrated green endpapers with dancing children; text in sepia, illustrations throughout; light shelf scuffing to edges; unclipped illustrated dust jacket, light foxing and shelf soiling; near fine in very good minus dj. Hanrahan A4-1 (teal spine, "Grr-r-r" on p[23], $1.50 on dj flap). Simple and charming word definitions for children with illustrations by Sendak.