Sendak, Maurice; DeJong, Meindert

SHADRACH.

Pictures by Maurice Sendak. Pp. [viii]+182, title page vignette, text illustrations; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed, fore-corners of upper wrapper slightly creased, tiny snag at foot of backstrip; text block faintly browned; Harper & Row, New York, 1980. First Harper Trophy edition. [See Hanrahan A7]. *Originally published in 1953, and a Newbery Honor book in 1954. (A year later, Sendak and Dejong won the Newbery Medal for The Wheel on the School). In 1962 Meindert Dejong became the first American to receive the International Hans Christian Andersen award. Six of his books were illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Item #151786

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