In the Night Kitchen (Signed)
by Sendak, Maurice
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good+
- Seller
-
Madison, Indiana, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harper and Row, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Signed. Hardcover. Thin quarto. 11.25 x 8.75 inches. 40 pp (unpaginated). Near Fine / Good+. Inscribed in pencil, with full signature in ink, and dated by author on front free endpaper recto, "to Peter, hello!, Maurice Sendak, Nov.'73." Publisher's original oatmeal linen binding with circular color pictorial onlay to front board. Light brown endpapers. Fully illustrated in color by author. Full color pictorial dust jacket has all points present (per Hanrahan) for first issue: front flap clipped on bottom corner, price of $4.95 intact at top, 1070 at bottom left; seven titles listed on rear flap. Silver Caldecott Honor Book sticker on front dust jacket panel, indicating that this copy was not distributed until after the award was given. Binding tight and square. Case has sharp tips and no edge wear. Boards clean with exception of a small smudge at lower center of front board and a small spot of stain at the center of the top edge of the back board. Pictorial pastedown is clean and bright. End papers clean and bright with a hint of thumb denting to rear free endpaper. Pages clean, bright, flat, crisp, and sharp throughout. Dust jacket shows considerable shelf wear. Creasing to all upper edges. Edge wear and rubbing throughout. Chipping at all panel corners and at head and tail of spine. Short (1 cm) closed tears at upper leading corners front and back. 1 cm of material loss at edge upper near leading corner of front panel. 1 cm closed tear at top edge of rear panel. Back panel rubbed and scored in three places with some material loss at one 10 cm score. Dust jacket now in archival protective cover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000016
- Title
- In the Night Kitchen (Signed)
- Author
- Sendak, Maurice
- Illustrator
- Sendak, Maurice
- Format/Binding
- Publisher’s original oatmeal linen binding with circular color pictorial onlay to front board
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper and Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Pages
- 40
- Size
- 4to
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Caldecott
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Picture;
Terms of Sale
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
About the Seller
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
About Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Recto
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- First Edition
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- Quarto
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- Fine
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- Edges
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- Inscribed
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- Rubbing
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Shelf Wear
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....