Sale 2497 - Fine Illustrated Books & Graphics, January 29, 2019

55 c   HURD, CLEMENT. Racing from the Storm. Woodcut on paper. 330x673 mm; 13x25 1 / 2 inches, framed to 21x23 inches in burled wood. Bush Galleries, 1988 to current owner. A dynamic image by the famous creator of the children’s classics The Runaway Bunny and Goodnight Moon. Hurd studied with Leger in Paris and illustrated Gertrude Stein’s children’s book The World is Round, before being encouraged by Margaret Wise Brown to try illustrating children’s books. Nd   [1,000/1,500] 55 56 c   SENDAK, MAURICE. “Let the Wild Rumpus Start! Happy twenty-fifth birthday to Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are.” Color print. 483x468 mm; 19x25 1 / 2 inches. Hanrahan C18c. inscribed and signed by sendak to literary agent mark mcveigh in November 2002. A bit faded and with a few light soil marks. New York, 1988   [250/350] 57 c   SENDAK, MAURICE; and RUTH KRAUSS. Bears. Illustrated by Sendak. Oblong 8vo, pictorial boards; dust jacket. first edition , with a ribald ink drawing by sendak of the character max , suit pulled down, and urinating, captioned: “For Mark, with love - your old pisser pal - Maurice Sendak, June 2005.” (New York: Harper Collins, 2005)   [600/900] with : — Sendak, Maurice; and Tony Kushner. Brundibar. Color illustrations by Sendak. Oblong 8vo, cloth; dust jacket.  first edition . inscribed and signed by sendak and kushner on front endpaper facing half-title. (New York: Di Capua/Hyperion, 2003). 56 57