WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE.** [50th Anniversary Edition.]

UK,oblong 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[Title first and originally published US,1963 and first UK HB edn in 1967.This (UK) 50th Anniversary edition in 2013.The original pictures have never before been as faithfully reproduced as they are in this new edition.Maurice Sendak enthusiastically approved this remastered rendition of his art.] FINE+/FINE-.No owner inscrptn and no price- clip to the dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by Maurice Sendak,illustrated dw/dj with an adhesive,circular,embossed gold 'THE CALDECOTT MEDAL' medallion sticker to front panel of dw/dj,along with grey lettering to front panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners.A small snick at head of spine and a small closed tear - internally sellotape repaired - slightly further along the rear top edge of the dw/dj.Wrap-around colour illustration/design repeated to the sharp-cornered,paper-covered bds with the exception of an unlettered taupe(?) coloured cloth blind spine/backstrip and grey lettering to front bd only.Publisher's original, bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered illustrated bds and immacuate colour pictorial illustrated eps.UK,oblong 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,40pp [unpaginated] includes half-title page,colour pictorial illustrated double-page title page,7 single page colour illustrations with text on opposite page,3 vertical 3/4's double-page colour illustrations with text to facing page,4 horizontal 3/4's double-page colour illustrations with text below the illustration,and 3 double-page colour ilus without any text.[All illustrations remastered for this edition.] A highly collected and prolific children's book illustrator,and an unusual item/ ephemera in SENDAK's bold style and will be an important and welcome addition to the SENDAK canon. Maurice Bernard Sendak (b.1928) New York,USA.American illustrator,studied at Lafayette High School,subsequently working as a window-dresser and enjoying his first major success as an illustrator with Ruth Krauss's 'A Hole is to Dig' (1952).Best known for this,his 1963 picture book,'Where the Wild Things Are.' winner of the 1964 Caldecott Medal for the Most Distinguished Picture Book of the Year.Four years later the book came to Britain,where it soon tamed the initial furore from th critics.The book was followed by 'In the Night Kitchen',a dream fantasy,but,as Sendak said,"a fantasy rooted ten feet deep in reality",and 'Outside Over There' - see my book ID rja664817 for UK,1st edn - which the (UK) The Sunday Times described as "his most outstanding work yet; entirely real,other worldly and not to be missed." Besides this particular title,'Where The Wild Things Are',Sendak's other books include 'Kenny's Window','Very Far Away','The Sign on Rosie's Door',Nutshell Library (consisting of 'Chicken Soup with Rice','Alligators All Around','One Was Johnny',and 'Pierre.'), 'Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life','In the Night Kitchen','Outside Over There','We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy',and 'Bumble-Ardy.' An author/artist of world renown,Maurice Sendak received the 1970 Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration in recognition of the excellence of his entire body of work.In 2003,he received the first Astrid Lingren Memorial Award,an international prize for children's literature established by the Swedish government. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template, altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!
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