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SENDAK, MAURICE. 1928-2012. Nutshell Library. New York: Harper & Row, [1962]. image 1
SENDAK, MAURICE. 1928-2012. Nutshell Library. New York: Harper & Row, [1962]. image 2
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SENDAK, MAURICE. 1928-2012.
Nutshell Library. New York: Harper & Row, [1962].

5 December 2018, 10:00 EST
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SENDAK, MAURICE. 1928-2012.

Nutshell Library. New York: Harper & Row, [1962]. 4 volumes. Small 16mo. Original salmon cloth in original pictorial dust jackets within original pictorial papered slipcase, Chicken Soup with Rice with white band at the base of spine, without price sticker on bottom of slipcase, jackets and slipcase with minor rubbing and soiling.
PRESENTATION COPY WITH ORIGINAL PEN-AND-INK DRAWING OF A SCOWLING PIERRE, the first edition, first state, inscribed Pierre, with the drawing, "Dec. '63/ For Hilary -- who is so nice to know! Maurice Sendak."
WITH: KNIGHT, HILARY. B. 1826. Christmas Nutshell Library. New York: Harper & Row, [1963]. Small 16mo. Original red cloth, all except The Night Before Christmas with original decorated dust jacket, in original slipcase, edges of jackets and slipcase slightly rubbed.
EACH VOLUME AND THE SLIPCASE SIGNED BY HILARY KNIGHT. The Christmas Nutshell Library was the immediate successor to Sendak's original boxed set. "We had the good fortune to both have the Great and Powerful Ursula Nordstrum as our editor at Harper & Row," Mr. Knight explains. "There was no nonsense when Ursula appraised your submitted work...sometimes withering but always on target."
WITH: A Firefly in a Fir Tree. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, [2004]. 8vo. Original decorated laminated boards, publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION OF THE ENTIRELY RE-ILLUSTRATED EDITION of A Christmas Carol for Mice, from the original Christmas Nutshell Library. Signed and dated by the illustrator.
WITH: KRAUSS, RUTH. SENDAK, MAURICE, illus. Open House for Butterflies. New York: Harper & Bros, [1960]. 8vo. Original cloth-backed decorated boards in publisher's dust jacket, minor wear and discoloring in slightly worn dust jacket with some loss of top spine.
Provenance: Inscribed by Sendak to Hilary Knight, dated "Dec '63;" Rubberstamped on pastedown, "Collection Of Hilary Knight".
PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, signed in ink on verso of front free endpaper: "For Hilary Maurice Sendak." True first printing with "30-70/No. 9429A" on the front flap of the jacket, and four reviews followed by "Harper & Brothers/No. 9430A" on the back flap. Without the "Harper Blue Ribbon Book" sticker across the mid-spine of the dust jacket.

"I really believe," says Mr. Knight, "all of us, Kay & myself, Ruth & Maurice, were influenced by each others' books."

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