first edition
1967 · New York
by MacDonald, George; Sendak, Maurice; Auden, W.H.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967. Fine in near fine jacket.. First Sendak-illustrated edition of MacDonald's great transcendent fairy tale, with Auden's critical afterword on the secondary worlds of myth and fantasy. 7.25'' x 4.75''. Original ornate gilt-decorated blue cloth. In original unclipped ($3.95) pale blue pictorial dust jacket. An Ariel Book. Illustrated in black and white by Sendak. 85, [3] pages. Erasure mark to corner of front free endpaper. Jacket edges faintly sunned; light edgewear.
(Inventory #: 49765)