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[Sendak, Maurice] Brown, Margaret Wise, and Garth Williams. Little Fur Family. Presentation Copy
Sale 2107 - Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller
Dec 5, 2024 10:00AM ET
Live / New York
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$800 - 1,200
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$635
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[Sendak, Maurice] Brown, Margaret Wise, and Garth Williams. Little Fur Family

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1946 (but later). Later printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the illustrator Garth Williams on verso of frontispiece to Maurice Sendak: "To Maurice--Garth 1957". Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in brown, boards unevenly faded; in original pictorial dust-jacket ($2.50 on front flap).

A very special presentation copy, inscribed by one titan of children's illustration to another, from Garth Williams to his friend, Maurice Sendak.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.

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From the collection of Justin G. Schiller
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