Inscribed by Sendak on the upper half-title page, surrounding a small drawing of Max: 'Jan.9, 63 / For Richard + Sandy / with much affection! Maurice Sendak.' Gentle sunning to upper and lower board edges, light wear to spine ends and lower board edges, with minute exposure to one lower corners, and a shallow (1/2 cm) indentation to cloth at lower front joint contents fresh, with the binding sound Near Fine. Oblong quarto (25.5cm x 23.75cm) pictorial paper-covered boards and grey cloth backstrip pictorial endpapers dustjacket pp illus. Basis for the 2009 film directed by Spike Jonze starring Max Records and features the voices of James Gandolfini, Paul Dano, Lauren Ambrose, Forest Whitaker, Catherine O'Hara, and Chris Cooper.įirst Edition. The book was awarded the 1964 Caldecott Medal by the American Library Association' (NYPL Books of the Century 212). Reaching back into his own Brooklyn childhood, Sendak created the enduring child-hero Max, who overcomes his fears and achieves catharsis in a colorful fantasy tableau. 'Wild Things!' When Max's sojourn among them unfolded in kinematic splendor in 1963, adults trembled and children reveled. Hailed as 'the Picasso of children's books,' Maurice Sendak produced more than 85 books, of which Where the Wild Things Are is undeniably the most famous, being one of the ten best-selling children's books of all time. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, 'For Gloria Burton Maurice Sendak.' Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Oblong quarto, original cloth backed pictorial paper boards.

First edition of the 25th anniversary edition of one of the most desirable books in modern childrenâ s literature.

Where the wild things are first edition