Lot 227

Lot 227

[Sendak, Maurice] A Kiss for Little Bear. First Edition Presentation Copy, Inscribed With Drawing

Sale 2107 - Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller

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[Sendak, Maurice] Minarik, Else Holmelund. A Kiss for Little Bear

New York, etc.: Harper & Row, Publishers, (1968). First edition. 8vo. 32 pp. Presentation copy, inscribed by Maurice Sendak on front free endpaper, in the year of publication, to May, likely his English nurse, and with an ink illustration by him of Little Bear: "Oct. '68 For May- happy Birthday for the 22nd!! [within a talking bubble] and all my love! Maurice Sendak". Illustrated by Sendak. Publisher's pictorial light green paper-covered boards; in original unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Hanrahan A70

A warm presentation copy, inscribed by Sendak and with an original illustration by him of Little Bear, to May. According to Justin Schiller, May was likely Sendak's "nurse from 1967 when he had his heart attack in Birmingham, UK, during his tour to promote the British first printing of Where the Wild Things Are. For the next few years he sent her a book for her birthday."

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

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From the collection of Justin G. Schiller

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