Four items signed by Maurice Sendak:
ALS, one page, 5 x 7, personal letterhead, January 19, 1972. Response to an autograph request. In full: “You wrote to me last August—telling me how sick you were—and asking for an autographed picture of myself for your son Michael. Forgive me for taking so long—I was away on a trip and only recently was I able to obtain some photographs. Your letter made me very sad. My own father died only a short time ago. I hope all is well with you—and that God has been kind.” In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope addressed in Sendak’s hand, including a signature in the return address area.
ALS, one page, 6 x 7, personal letterhead, January 1990. In full: “It's impossible to choose one writer. I must have at least two. Herman Melville and Henry James. Why? They have immensely improved my life.” In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope.
Signed book: Herman Melville's Pierre or The Ambiguities. First edition. NY: HarperCollins. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 7.5, 449 pages. Signed on the half-title page in black felt tip by illustrator Maurice Sendak and editor Hershel Parker. In fine condition.
Dust jacket proof for Down the Rabbit Hole, 23 x 8.75, signed and inscribed in black ink in the lower right corner, "April '71, For Barbara & Sidney—So Reg should be happy! Maurice Sendak." Folded at one edge of the spine. In fine condition.
