Item #149974 WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. Maurice Sendak.

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE.

Story and pictures by Maurice Sendak. Pp. [40], illustrated in colour throughout; oblong 4to; pictorial papered boards, a trifle foxed; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and foxed, edges lightly rubbed and split; a couple of spots of foxing to edges of leaves; The Bodley Head, London, 1988. 25th Anniversary edition, U.K. issue. [See Hanrahan A58]. *Originally published in New York in 1963; winner of the 1964 Caldecott Medal. 'Four years later The Wild Things came to Britain where they soon tamed the initial furore from the critics and carried on with their own wild rumpus to make the book an acknowledged classic of twentieth-century children's literature' [wrapper blurb]. Item #149974

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