Signed book: In the Night Kitchen. First edition. NY: Harper & Row, 1970. Hardcover with dust jacket (retaining the correct "$4.95" price, but with the bottom corner of the front flap clipped), 8.75 x 11.25. Signed on the first free end page in black ballpoint, "Maurice Sendak, Nov. 78." Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG/VG, with subtle foxing to boards, some staining to the rear of the dust jacket, dust jacket edges reinforced with tape inside, and minor areas of surface loss at jacket's corners. Sendak's book would be recognized as a Caldecott Honor recipient in 1971.
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