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New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985. Hardcover. Fine. First edition thus, with pictures by Maurice Sendak. Publisher's presentation issue. Full gray morocco gilt. One of a handful of copies, perhaps as few as five, prepared by the publisher for presentation to the author, and for very limited distribution from the publisher. Bound from the unbound sheets of the signed and limited edition, this copy Signed by Sendak, but unnumbered. Possibly the only copy ever to reach the marketplace, this copy was retained by the binder. We've never seen another. Classic Czechoslovakian novel illustrated by Sendak.
ATOMICS FOR THE MILLIONS by EIDINOFF, DR. MAXWELL LEIGH
by EIDINOFF, DR. MAXWELL LEIGH
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ATOMICS FOR THE MILLIONS
by EIDINOFF, DR. MAXWELL LEIGH
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SENDAK, MAURICE. (SENDAK,MAURICE)illus. ATOMICS FOR THE MILLIONS by Maxwell Leigh Eidinoff. NY: McGraw / Whittlesey (1947). 8vo, blue pictorial cloth, 281p., Fine in slightly frayed dust wrapper. 1st edition second issue with endpapers not on laid paper otherwise identical to first issue. Sendak's first book, profusely illustrated in b&w throughout. Very scarce in the pictorial wrapper.
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The Cunning Little Vixen
by TESNOHLIDEK, Rudolf. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak
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- Used - Fine
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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£2,041.00
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LITTLE STORIES
by Sendak, Maurice, Gladys Baker Bond
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- first
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Middletown, Maryland, United States
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£163.28
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New York: Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, (1964). First edition thus: collecting seven stories previously published separately. Illustrations for each story and on front cover by Sendak. Stories deal with various situations or conflicts children might encounter and demonstrate ways to deal with them. Includes "On Your Mark," "Jacob's Friendliest Town," "The Crankiest Man on Main Street," "Down the Old Bear Trail," "Johnny Red Feather," "Lonesome Feet," and "The Secret." Small, white-and-yellow, faintly soiled pictorial paperwraps showing light creasing to page-top corners. Very good to near fine. Scarce issue. SCARCE FIRST COMBINED EDITION
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ELOISE IN MOSCOW
by Thompson, Kay. Hilary Knight (Illustrator)
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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£293.90
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. From TBCL's Children's Bookcase. First Edition, first printing of the fourth and final Eloise book inspired by the antics of the author's goddaughter, Liza Minnelli. A fine copy in orange paper covered boards, black titles and decorations in a lovely, crisp, pictorial dustwrapper that has been lightly and expertly restored. Bold and sassy illustrations by Hilary Knight. 4to. 66 pp. Unpaginated. A modern classic of children's literature, noted children's book illustrator and author Maurice Sendak called Eloise, "that brazen loose-limbed delicious little girl monster". TBCL.
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Charlotte And The White Horse - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Krauss, Ruth
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- Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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£171.44
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New York: Harper & Brothers. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1955. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A most attractive first edition/first printing [Hanrahan A18] in Fine condition in Near Fine dustjacket. Some chipping and soiling of dustjacket, but in general it is clean and bright; The fantasy story of a little girl, named Charlotte, and her little white horse, Milky Way from the time Milky Way was born and took his first wobbly steps and from the beginning of the day to the end when Charlotte tells him goodnight and leaves her horse a bowl of water, hay, and oats; 16mo .
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Where the Wild Things Are
by SENDAK, Maurice
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- near fine
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- first
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- Used - Near Fine
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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£16,328.00
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New York: Harper & Row, 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition with the publisher's price and the correct first issue code on the front flap. Cloth and papercovered illustrated boards. A bit of foxing to the boards, near fine in a modestly toned, very good dustwrapper with a couple of faint splash marks. Nicely Inscribed by Sendak in 1966 with a small drawing of a dog.
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£16,328.00
The Cunning Little Vixen
by TESNOHLIDEK, Rudolf. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Used - Fine
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- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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£2,041.00
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New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985. Hardcover. Fine. First edition thus, with pictures by Maurice Sendak. Publisher's presentation issue. Full gray morocco gilt. One of a handful of copies, perhaps as few as five, prepared by the publisher for presentation to the author, and for very limited distribution from the publisher. Bound from the unbound sheets of the signed and limited edition, this copy Signed by Sendak, but unnumbered. Possibly the only copy ever to reach the marketplace, this copy was retained by the binder. We've never seen another. Classic Czechoslovakian novel illustrated by Sendak.
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£2,041.00
LITTLE STORIES
by Sendak, Maurice, Gladys Baker Bond
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- first
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- Used
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- Unknown
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Middletown, Maryland, United States
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£163.28
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New York: Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, (1964). First edition thus: collecting seven stories previously published separately. Illustrations for each story and on front cover by Sendak. Stories deal with various situations or conflicts children might encounter and demonstrate ways to deal with them. Includes "On Your Mark," "Jacob's Friendliest Town," "The Crankiest Man on Main Street," "Down the Old Bear Trail," "Johnny Red Feather," "Lonesome Feet," and "The Secret." Small, white-and-yellow, faintly soiled pictorial paperwraps showing light creasing to page-top corners. Very good to near fine. Scarce issue. SCARCE FIRST COMBINED EDITION
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£163.28
ELOISE IN MOSCOW
by Thompson, Kay. Hilary Knight (Illustrator)
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- first
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- Used
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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£293.90
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. From TBCL's Children's Bookcase. First Edition, first printing of the fourth and final Eloise book inspired by the antics of the author's goddaughter, Liza Minnelli. A fine copy in orange paper covered boards, black titles and decorations in a lovely, crisp, pictorial dustwrapper that has been lightly and expertly restored. Bold and sassy illustrations by Hilary Knight. 4to. 66 pp. Unpaginated. A modern classic of children's literature, noted children's book illustrator and author Maurice Sendak called Eloise, "that brazen loose-limbed delicious little girl monster". TBCL.
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£293.90
Charlotte And The White Horse - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Krauss, Ruth
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
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- First Edition; First Printing
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- Hardcover
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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£171.44
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New York: Harper & Brothers. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1955. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A most attractive first edition/first printing [Hanrahan A18] in Fine condition in Near Fine dustjacket. Some chipping and soiling of dustjacket, but in general it is clean and bright; The fantasy story of a little girl, named Charlotte, and her little white horse, Milky Way from the time Milky Way was born and took his first wobbly steps and from the beginning of the day to the end when Charlotte tells him goodnight and leaves her horse a bowl of water, hay, and oats; 16mo .
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Where the Wild Things Are
by SENDAK, Maurice
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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£16,328.00
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New York: Harper & Row, 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition with the publisher's price and the correct first issue code on the front flap. Cloth and papercovered illustrated boards. A bit of foxing to the boards, near fine in a modestly toned, very good dustwrapper with a couple of faint splash marks. Nicely Inscribed by Sendak in 1966 with a small drawing of a dog.
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ATOMICS FOR THE MILLIONS
by EIDINOFF, DR. MAXWELL LEIGH AND RUCHLIS, HYMAN
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- Used - Minor Edge Wear Only.
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- No Jacket
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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£142.87
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New York, London: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill, 1947. First issue endpapers. First book illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Introduction by Harold C. Urey. Drawings in black and white throughout the text material. 281pp. . First Edition, First Issue.. Blue Cloth. Minor Edge Wear Only./No Jacket. Octavo.
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Atomics For The Millions. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. With an Introduction by Harold C. Urey.
by Sendak (Maurice). Eidinoff (Dr. Maxwell Leigh) & Hyman Ruchlis
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Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
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£346.97
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NY: Whittlesey House/Mcgraw-Hill, (1947). First edition. . Blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered and designed in red and gilt. Ownership signature on inner front cover, a clean very good to fine copy in a slightly chipped and worn dust jacket with closed tears at folds and edges, and some loss at the top of the spine. This copy is of the first issue (see Hanrahan A1), with the original price of $3.50 on both front and rear jacket flaps, and the herringbone end papers. Maurice Sendak's first illustrated book, done when he was 18.
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