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CECH (John): Angels & Wild Things. The Archetypal Poetics of Maurice Sendak. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. Square 4to., xx 284 pp., including 10 full color reproductions (six are double-page) + 110 b/w illustrations of Sendak images (some from sketchbooks and preliminary drawings) or that which inspired them; brown cloth boards gilt-titled on spine, full color pictorial dust-jacket. First edition, originally conceived as a college on Sendak's art and the philosophy (psychology) behind his images, allegories and symbolism. This was never intended to replace or update Selma Lanes' lavish 1980 biography, but it has still been heralded for going beyond the framework of a mass-marketed trade-book in exploring the universally recognized genius of Sendak: delving deeply into the artist's self-admitted endless fascination and absorption with childhood and child-life. The energy of his picture-books is not simply their artistic beauty, which has dubbed Mr Sendak "the Picasso of Children's… Read More

SENDAK (Maurice): At Home With Jack And Guy
Kingston, NY: Battledore Ltd., 1999.Original lithograph measuring 14 x 19-1/2 inches, printed in two colors. Drawn by the artist directly on stone in 1993 and intended to accompany a deluxe version of We Are All In The Dumps With Jack And Guy(New York: HarperCollins), this project was put aside and the fate of this image uncertain until publication was transferred to Battledore Ltd in 1999. With Mr. Sendak's permission, we arranged with Timothy P. Sheesley of Corridor Press to produce 200 copies of this limited edition print on Rives Arches paper, each authenticated with their chop mark stamped on the lower left margin; numbered and SIGNED by the artist (an additional 38 copies total were done as trial proofs, artist proofs, hors commerce, and bon à tirer). Accompanied by a printed certificate of tirage limitation. The actual stone is now at The Rosenbach Museum & Library (Philadelphia) where it will be available for educational purposes but never again… Read More

EIDINOFF (Dr. Maxwell Leigh) and RUCHLIS (Hyman):
Atomics
London, Sydney, Toronto, [and] Bombay: George G Harrap & Co., Ltd, (1950).
Illustrated by Maurice Sendak; with an Introduction by Harold C. Urby
Small 8vo., 248 pp.; red cloth
Sixth volume in Harrap's "Torch Books"
First UK edition

Maurice Sendak illustrated DRACULA
SENDAK (Maurice):
Bram Stoker's Dracula. 1997
A Rare Broadside Print – Limited only to 100 numbered copies (this is copy #73), printed on fine textured drawing paper, numbered and signed in ink by the artist underneath his full-color design which measures 5-1/2 x 4-1/8 inches to the borders, on larger paper.Sheet measures 9-3/4 x 7 inches, deckle-edged at bottom
In the unopened envelope (numbered in pencil on the return address)

This was especially prepared by Mr. Sendak for the exhibition: Bram Stoker's Dracula a Centennial Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum & Library, 10 April to 2 November 1997.
The design was also used for the show's poster and illustrated bookmark as well as on the front panel dust-jacket of the descriptive exhibition catalogue (included here: 4to., 36 pp.; pictorial wrappers) -- but only the print is reproduced in the exact size of the original artwork and no copies of the print were done unnumbered or unsigned (except as intermediate… Read More

EIDINOFF (Dr. Maxwell Leigh) and RUCHLIS (Hyman):
Energia Atomica Presente y Futuro
[Buenos Aires:] Libreria Hachette S.A., 1951
Translated by Rodolfo J Walsh
Illustrated by Maurice Sendak; with an Introduction by Harold C. Urby
8vo., xvi 348 pp.; gilt-stamped denim-blue cloth (soiled, some discoloration; rear cover with paper remnant)
First Spanish language edition. Colección Saber.Reference: see Hanrahan A1

BILL CLINTON 1993 INAUGURAL PRINT signed by MAURICE SENDAK
SENDAK (Maurice): "HAPPY INAUGURATION ... A Jubilee Welcome for Our New President and His Family! From the Children of America, Maurice Sendak, and Harper Collins Publishers January 20, 1993". SIGNED.
Original art print on semi-stiff paper, the design by Maurice Sendak and commissioned by his publishers as an official greeting to welcome the Clinton era -- it was published in major newspapers all across the USA on the actual inauguration day, and may have been given to those invited to one of many inaugural parties: but exact limitation is unknown, except it is quite rare and unusual.
The actual image appears to be a duotone from graphite, with a red and blue single rule surround with caption below: overall measurement is 13-1/16 x 12-1/2 inches (33.2 x 31.8 cm). A small quantity was acquired directly from the artist, who then signed each one in ink. It is the only political image Sendak did in his entire oeuvre. Our copies are… Read More

PRESENTATION COPY, the first volume inscribed by the artist on the half-title: "For dear Judy - with all my love! Maurice Sendak Dec. '73" which was actually the earliest month the book was available. ALSO INCLUDED is a folded paper chemise inscribed by the artist "For Judy from her loving friend Maurice / Oct. 2002." Inside is a complete set of all 27 page illustrations as individual prints, handsome impressions on large paper, each sheet measuring 8-3/4 x 6-5/8 inches compared to the published sheet size in the book of 6-7/8 x 5-1/2 inches.The recipient of these two inscriptions is Sendak's close friend Judy Taylor, his British editor (The Bodley Head) from 1960 onwards who is largely credited with having helped to promote and popularize Sendak's illustration art in Europe.

(SENDAK, Maurice):
Poems from William Blake's Songs of Innocence.
London: [The Stellar Press for] The Bodley Head, [1967]. Eight illustrations by Maurice Sendak (including one repeat: title/p.11), each printed in sanguine. 12mo.,19 pp. + [1] colophon; semi-stiff covers with wrap-around pictorial paper dust-jacket, spine stitched as issued (spine ends lightly rubbed).
PRESENTATION COPY Inscribed in ink on front free-endpaper: "Dear Sylvia – Mit Liebe! Maurice & Gene". The recipient, Sylvia Milgram, was Teacher-Coordinator for the Bureau of Art, New York City Board of Education and a Lecturer at the Museum of Modern Art, New York [d. 2000]. Gene is Eugene Glynn (1926-2007), psychoanalyst and Maurice Sendak's partner for more than fifty years.
First and only printing, limited to 275 copies issued as a Christmas keepsake for presentation to friends of the publisher and of the artist. No copies were ever offered for sale at the time of publication. While on a promotional tour for the British… Read More

Sendak in Asia. Exhibition Catalogue.With 43 black and white, and 22 color illustrations. Oblong 8vo, [48]pp; pictorial stiff paper wrappers. Fine exhibition catalogue highlighting a myriad of works illustrated and written by this celebrated children's book writer and artist. The exhibition began in October 1996 at Maruzen Co. Ltd. galleries in Tokyo, Japan, travelling in December to Kyoto and Nagoya and then to Neilson Hays Library in Bangkok, Thailand in January 1997. Illustrating more than eighty books, Sendak's original art is in constant demand by private collectors everywhere. Nearly all of his artwork is archived at the Rosenbach Museum and Library (Philadelphia). Past loan exhibits have been presented at the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, England) and The Pierpont Morgan Library (New York), while commercial galleries have offered modest shows with work on loan from the artist. Significant drawings are rarely ever offered for sale, especially his highly finished pencil studies which precisely detail… Read More