By Maurice Sendak.

Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1965. First edition. Hardback cover, unnumbered pages. Colour illustrations throughout.

CONDITION
Overall good condition - see photos. Some wear/grubby marks to hardcover, particularly at corners/edges of spine. Some light creasing to pages throughout, and one small corner of a page torn. No names or writing. Images crisp & clear throughout.

Illustrated nursery rhymes of the boy who visited the Queen and the youth whom the blackbirds called names.

Maurice Bernard Sendak was an American author and illustrator of children's books. He became most widely known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, first published in 1963. Born to Polish-Jewish parents, his childhood was affected by the death of many of his family members during the Holocaust.