Page 23 - Swann Galleries - 20th Century Illustration - Sale 2300 - January 24, 2013

20 ● MAURICE SENDAK. Chanover,
Hyman and Alice. Happy Hanukah
Everybody. Color and black-and-white
illustrations by Sendak. 4to, original pictorial
boards, light edgewear; child’s ink signature
on front pastedown. FIRST EDITION OF THIS
EARLY AND SCARCE TITLE, SIGNED BY SENDAK
on front endpaper. Hanrahan A16.
[NewYork]: United Synagogue
Commission on Jewish Education, [1955]
[300/500]
21 ● MAURICE SENDAK. DeJong, Meindert. Hurry Home, Candy. Illustrated by
Sendak. 8vo, green cloth stamped in black; dust jacket with $2.50 price on front flap, very
slightly toned, short clean tear at top of rear panel, otherwise unusually bright. FIRST
EDITION, SIGNED BY SENDAK of this heartrending tale of a stray dog.The first of many fine
collaborative works of Sendak and DeJong.
NewYork: Harper & Bros., (1953) [400/600]
22 ● MAURICE SENDAK. DeJong,Meindert. Six volumes by DeJong with illustrations
by Sendak. 8vo, cloth; dust jackets, condition varies but quite good. ALL SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS,
first issues, as per Hanrahan. NewYork: Harper & Bros., 1950s-62 [600/900]
Hurry Home, Candy. (1953) * Shadrach. (1953) *TheWheel on the School. Ex-collection
Joyce Hanrahan with her numbered bookplate laid in. (1954) *The House of Sixty Fathers.
Dust jacket is price-clipped but meets all other points for first issue. (1956) * Along Came a
Dog. (1958) * The Singing Hill. (1962).
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