Harry Abrams, New York 1993
SIGNED With a Drawing, Early Printing: Near fine early printing in a very good, illustrated dust jacket SIGNED, DATED AND INSCRIBED BY SENDAK WHO INCLUDED A DRAWING OF ROSIE. Please see detailed images.
The book has blue cloth boards in near fine condition. The corners are sharp, and the book has no edgewear but a hint of fading to the bottom of the spine cloth. The binding is tight and square. The book is in beautiful condition for this title. The internal pages are still rigid and with no writing, no stains, no handling marks, no rips, no bent pages, and no foxing. Beautiful clean, crisp, bright copy. An excellent reference work of Sendak’s illustrations in a large heavy coffee table size format (12″ X 11″). SIGNED, DATED AND INSCRIBED BY SENDAK WHO INCLUDED A DRAWING OF ROSIE. This is not only an impressive work simply because of the vast content of its illustrations, but ranks as well as the most important reference work on the artist. “Here is a unique world of imagination, from the squiggly line drawings of A Hole Is to Dig-Sendak s first major professional assignment-to sketches for his latest fantasy tale and including recent designs for opera sets and animated films. The book also includes generous selections of Sendak s early sketches and working dummies for all his important works-small-scale renderings that trace the meticulous, creative process be undergoes with each book. These provide key insights into the artist s mind as well as fascinating glimpses into his extraordinarily varied technique.”-publisher.
The book comes with the original very good price clipped dust jacket with some of the common fading to the spine.
A unique copy with a spectacular signed and inscribed original Sendak drawing of Rosie!
**International shipping due to weight and size is $160.00***
Sendak’s dark, moody illustrations were a stark contrast to the typically light and happy fare found in most children’s books of the time. The main character Max, like many of Sendak’s protagonists, acted like a real child, not some idealized version of youth.
“I think it is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy childhood for anybody. Childhood is a very, very tricky business of surviving it. Because if one thing goes wrong or anything goes wrong, and usually something goes wrong, then you are compromised as a human being. You’re going to trip over that for a good part of your life.”
