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	1	Sendak, Maurice, illustrator; Krauss, Ruth, text A HOLE IS TO DIG: A First Book of First Definitions [New York]: Harper & Brothers, (1952). First edition, later state. ''When you make your bed you get a star'' followed by ''Grr-r-r.'' Small square octavo. Hardcover. Very small, pale dampstain to one leaf, a hint of shelf-wear, a suggestion of age-toning: a very good plus copy in teal cloth-backed illustrated boards; in a price-clipped, age-darkened dust jacket with a light soiling, shallow nicking at the spine ends. Brilliant collaboration between Krauss and Sendak manages to be sweet without cloying, childlike without condescension, and smart without being smart-alecky. "Rugs are so dogs have napkins." "A hole is when you step in it you go down." Irresistible. Price: 150.00 USD
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	2	Krauss, Ruth; pictures by Maurice Sendak I'LL BE YOU AND YOU BE ME New York: Harper & Brothers, (1954). 006023430X / 9780060234300 Early printing. Hardcover. Crinkling to a few pages, a few dots of faint stain within, light wear and abrasion to edges, age-darkening to covers: very good plus, in black cloth-backed pictorial boards; no dust jacket. Krauss, a member of the experimental Writer's Laboratory at the Bank Street School in NYC, here reteams with her A HOLE IS TO DIG partner for another kooky and cunning little book that uncannily--and poetically--expresses the inner life of children. Price: 50.00 USD
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	3	Sendak, Maurice; music by Carole King MAURICE SENDAK'S REALLY ROSIE STARRING THE NUTSHELL KIDS New York/Evanston/San Francisco/London: Harper & Row, Publishers, (1975). 060255374 First edition, first printing: an oblong quarto trade paperback. Trade Paperback. Faint corner crease to front cover, else fine, in illustrated wraps. Scenario, lyrics and pictures by Sendak. The music, included here, is by King. In collaboration with King, Sendak combined his THE SIGN ON ROSIE'S DOOR and THE NUTSHELL LIBRARY into a 27-minute CBS musical about the ten-year-old director, producer and star of her Brooklyn block. Expanded and performed off-Broadway in 1980. Price: 75.00 USD
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	4	Joslin, Sesyle; avec Dessins par Maurice Sendak QU'EST-CE QU'ON DIT, MON PETIT? Un Manuel de Politesse Pour Petites Demoiselles et Petits Messieurs Qui Desirent Savor La Politesse de Tous New York: Young Scott Books, 1966. First U.S. edition in French. Hanrahan, page 25. Hardcover. Nearly fine, in somewhat age-toned pictorial boards; in an age-toned, near fine, illustrated dust jacket. Joslin and Sendak's surreally comic, tongue-in-cheek treatise on manners for kids--WHAT DO YOU SAY DEAR (1958), here rendered into French, with the dual purpose of painlessly introducing children to etiquette and to basic French! Glossary at rear. Price: 75.00 USD
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	5	Yorinks, Arthur; Sendak, Maurice, illustrator THE MIAMI GIANT No Place. Michael Di Capua Books/Harper Collins Publishers. (1995). First edition. Hardcover. Fine in laminated pictorial boards; in a fine dust jacket. Square quarto. With fun illustrations in color by Sendak and hand-lettering by Jeanyee Wong, this is the story of the adventurous Guiseppe Giaween, who leaves Italy in search of China, and ends up in Miami. Price: 20.00 USD
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	6	Sendak, Maurice, illustrator WE ARE ALL IN THE DUMPS WITH JACK AND GUY: Two Nursery Rhymes with Pictures [No place]. Harper & Collins, (1993). First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Oblong octavo. Sendak, the highly regarded and prolific illustrator of such books as WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, and THE NUTSHELL LIBRARY, has gloriously joined together and illustrated two traditional nursery rhymes from Mother Goose. Price: 25.00 USD
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	7	Joslin, Sesyle; with pictures by Maurice Sendak WHAT DO YOU DO, DEAR?: Proper Conduct for All Occasions New York: Young Scott Books, 1961. Reprint. Oblong octavo. Hardcover. Near fine, with sticker residue to front pastedown; lacking dust jacket. "A Second Handbook of Etiquette for Young Ladies and Gentlemen To Be Used as a Guide for Everyday Social Behavior." Deliciously silly follow-up to Joslin and Sendak's WHAT DO YOU SAY, DEAR? Price: 25.00 USD
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