(New York: Harper and Row, 1970).

A MODERN CLASSIC and a perennial favorite. Item #23104

Early issue in the same year as the first with the Caldecott Honor sticker on the front dustjacket, the 10/70 date and seven titles listed on the rear dustjacket flap. Illustrated throughout with full page color paintings by Maurice Sendak. 4to, publisher’s original off white cloth illustrated on the upper cover with the Sendak color paste-down, in the Sendak pictorially illustrated colour dustjacket. (40) pp. A very fine copy in a very fine dust jacket.