Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$4.39 + shipping
Condition: Good
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Seller: Goldstone Books, Llandybie, United Kingdom
Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. Harper Trophy, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1988.
Price: US$7.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In very good, clean condition. Cover edges show slight wear. Classic story of Max who imagines a land where the wild things are and he is their King.
Seller: Adagio Books, Longmont, CO, U.S.A.
Maurice Sendak. Where the Wild Things Are. Harper Collins, 1988.
Price: US$7.85 + shipping
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Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are.. Harper Collins, New York, 1988.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Stiff bright unmarked book, in crisp dust jacket with a half-inch tear; Caldecott Medal medallion to front cover. ; 10.80 X 10.31 X 0.63 inches; 48 pages
Seller: B-Line Books, Amherst, NS, Canada
Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are.. Harper Collins, New York, 1988.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Stiff bright unmarked book, in crisp dust jacket with a half-inch tear; Caldecott Medal medallion to front cover. ; 10.80 X 10.31 X 0.63 inches; 48 pages
Seller: B-Line Books, Amherst, NS, Canada
Maurice Sendak. Where The Wild Things Are. Harper Collins, 1988.
Price: US$12.60 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 25th Anniversary edition. Would be near fine except there is brown spot staining to outer edges of boards on the inside. Jacket good with similar spotting on the outside along with a little edge wear. See pictures for further description.
Seller: Dean's Books, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Maurice Sendak. Where the Wild Things Are. Harper Collins, 1988.
Price: US$14.88 + shipping
Condition: New
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Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
MAURICE SENDAK. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. Harper Collins, N.Y., 1988.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: A very fine, clean and tight copy in a near fine jacket/brodart covered Twenty fifth Anniversary Edition. Jacket has a small closed tear to top spine fold. Jacket is not priced clipped. No signatures, no bumped corners.
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
Maurice Sendak. Where The Wild Things Are. Harper & Row, 1988.
Price: US$15.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
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Seller: London Bridge Books, London, United Kingdom
Maurice Sendak. Where The Wild Things Are. Harper & Row, 1988.
Price: US$15.43 + shipping
Condition: Fair
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Seller: London Bridge Books, London, United Kingdom
Sendak, Maurice. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE 25th Anniversary Edition. Harper & Row, UK, 1988.
Price: US$21.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HB, matte p[ictorial boards in like DJ, unpaged, c.40pp, col illus. Unclipped DJ has general rubbing to edges with tears to spine ends, corners and edges, repaired on reverse with removable tape & now protected. Book has minor rubbing to covers, inside is square, clean, tight & unmarked. Size: Oblong 8vo
Seller: Grandmahawk's Eyrie, Mansfield Center, CT, U.S.A.
Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. Harper & Row, 1988.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 25th anniversary edition. Corners worn. A little crayon on half title page.
Seller: Bearly Read Books, Sudbury, MA, U.S.A.
SENDAK, MAURICE. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE 25th anniversary edition. HARPER/COLLINS, NY, 1988.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: CLEAN COPY
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.
Sendak, Maurice. Where The Wild Things Are - 25th Anniversary Edition. Harper & Row, 1988.
Price: US$44.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A Very Fine, clean and tight copy, NO markings at all, in same condition Dust Jacket. Front Flap states '25th Anniversary Edition", but no price on jacket flap. Front panel of jacket has the circular Caldecott Medal in place. Mylar protected jacket.
Seller: Margins13 Books, Redmond, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Promotional die-cut for the 1988 anniversary release of Where the Wild Things Are. On thick stock paper, with die-cut around Max's crown and scepter and along the edges of the cake. Nicely preserved, with slight creasing where the hand and scepter connect. 11.75" (at tallest point) x 7.25" (at widest).
Seller: Open Boat Booksellers, Amherst, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$198.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. ONE OF A KIND ON ABEBOOKS. Hanrahan C18c: Poster measures 19 x 25.5 inches on heavy stock. Depicts the Wild Things Gang in Party Hats dancing around a cake which Max is jumping out of. Scans show full photo and only one side the Poster; there is writing on the right side :Let the Wide Rumpus Start! Happy Twenty-Fifth Birthday to Maurice Sendak's WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. The colors are mellower than the original Where the Wild Things Are. Very suitable for a child's room: Can be framed.
Seller: Shepardson Bookstall, Brookline, MA, U.S.A.
Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. HARPER COLLINS, 1988.
Price: US$221.47 + shipping
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Seller: Iridium_Books, DH, SE, Spain
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Promotional POSTER. (19" X 25 1/2") Fine on a single sheet of heavy cardstock. (Tiny nick at upper lefth hand corner tip. ) Wonderful full-color poster depicting the gang from "Where The Wild Things Are" which was specially commisioned for this annivesary edition. Highly suitable for framing. (LR)
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Maurice Sendak. Where the Wild Things Are. Harper and Row, New York, 1988.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: near fine in a very good jacket. signed and inscribed by Sendak. beautiful early copy of Sendaks most important work and one of the most influential childrens books of all time 1st
Seller: Coast to Coast Books, ANACORTES, WA, U.S.A.
Sendak, Maurice [signed]. Where the Wild Things Are [signed]. Harper & Roe, 1988.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Oblong hardcover with DJ. The familiar illustrations on the boards, with gray cloth spine. The book and binding are in excellent condition. The DJ has gold Caldecott Medal sticker on the front. DJ is complete but has a bit of dustiness to it, inoffensive to any reader but perhaps not ideal for the collector-of-the-pristine. The DJ here is printed on non-glossy paper, just as the original 1963 edition was. On the spine of the DJ, there are a a couple spots where the removal of a sticker has lifted the coloring or words on the paper. Signed by Sendak beneath the book title on the half-title page. No inscription or date; just the signature. This is the 25th anniversary edition, identified as such on the title page and DJ flap. Bar code and ISBN on the rear DJ flap. 1988. The book itself is flawless; the DJ good-only. Please email with questions or to request photos. If you see a photo beside this listing, please be aware that its an ABE Stock Photo (whatever that is) and not a photo of this book.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Maurice Sendak. Maurice Sendak Signed "New York Is Book Country" Poster. Harper & Row, 1988.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A poster illustrated by children's book author Maurice Sendak (1928-2012), pen signed by the artist as "Maurice Sendak" at lower right. Printed courtesy of Horowitz / Rae Book Manufacturers, Inc. on fine quality art paper and distributed by Harper and Row, Publishers, Inc. on a single day of issue, September 18, 1988, to benefit Children's Services at the New York Public Library. Near fine. 18.5" x 23.75." The poster commemorated two cultural milestones: the 10th anniversary of the "New York is Book Country" book festival and street fair, held annually along Manhattan's celebrated row of antiquarian and used book stores since it was first inaugurated in 1978; and the 25th anniversary of Sendak's hugely popular children's book, "Where the Wild Things Are." The poster depicts one of Sendak's famous creations, a horned and bearded Wild Thing with a Chrysler building cap, consulting books by William Blake, Primo Levi, and the Brothers Grimm while gnawing on festival bunting. The monster towers above signs, storefronts, and awnings belonging to a few of Manhattan's oldest and most prestigious book stores. At its peak, Manhattan's 6-block "Booksellers' Row" oriented along Fourth Avenue included over 36 used and specialty bookstores such as Argosy, Schultes, and Biblio & Tannen. By the 1960s, many of these businesses were forced to relocate because of increasing rents. Sendak's creative vision, where all of the bookstores are again concentrated along Fourth Avenue, and where books cost 25 cents, is a nostalgic tribute to a bygone era. Maurice Sendak was an award-winning children's book illustrator and author. Always interested in design, Sendak began his career by illustrating comic books and designing toy company shop windows. "Where The Wild Things Are" was followed by "In the Night Kitchen" (1970) and "Outside Over There" (1981). Sendak also created, wrote, and produced animated children's television programs. This poster may be shipped in a tube.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are.. Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, 1988.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition of the 25th anniversary of this classic work, one of 220 examples specially bound and signed by Maurice Sendak with an original Wild Thing drawing by Sendak. Very good in a very good slipcase. Uncommon. Hailed as "the Picasso of children's books," Maurice Sendak produced more than 85 books, of which Where the Wild Things Are is undeniably the most famous, being one of the ten best-selling children's books of all time. "Wild Things!' When Max's sojourn among them unfolded in kinematic splendor in 1963, adults trembled and children reveled. Reaching back into his own Brooklyn childhood, Sendak created the enduring child-hero Max, who overcomes his fears and achieves catharsis in a colorful fantasy tableau. The book was awarded the 1964 Caldecott Medal by the American Library Association" (NYPL Books of the Century 212). Basis for the 2009 film directed by Spike Jonze starring Max Records and features the voices of James Gandolfini, Paul Dano, Lauren Ambrose, Forest Whitaker, Catherine O'Hara, and Chris Cooper.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$8500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Where the Wild Things Are. [New York]: Harper & Row, [1988]. 25th Anniversary Limited Edition, #70/220, signed by Maurice Sendak and with an original drawing. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated [but 40 pages]. Publisher's crushed blue morocco, front board pictorially stamped in gilt, spine lettered in gilt. Printed colorful endpapers decorated with leaves, all edges gilt, dark blue silk page marker. Signed on the half title by author and illustrator, Maurice Sendak. With original ink on paper drawing of a "wild thing," signed and dated "Sept. '88" laid in. House in original linen clamshell with color pictorial inlay on front cover; touch of wear and wrinkling to clamshell. Also with original shipping box. All near fine or better.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Sendak, Maurice. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. Harper & Row, New York, 1988.
Price: US$11000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Beautiful association copy of the limited 25th Anniversary edition, presented by Sendak to his dear friend James Marshall, with the special card containing an original signed pen-and-ink drawing of Max parading as a Wild Thing and an additional inscription to Marshall. Sendak sent this copy as a birthday gift to Marshall, best known for his George and Martha series, one year before Marshall's untimely death from AIDS-related complications at the age of 50. In 1997, Sendak wrote passionately about Marshall's place in picture book history for the NEW YORK TIMES, including their own deep connection: "If I remember with terrible pain my lost friend and colleague, it is only because James raised the art of friendship to an exhilarating height. I think myself the luckiest of men to have shared his sweet warmth and confidence. There is a small army of people who, I'm certain, feel the same way. He made me laugh until I cried. No one else could ever do that. He was a wicked angel and will be missed forever." When Sendak died, he bequeathed his own collection of Marshall's works to the University of Connecticut, which already housed Marshall's papers. This 25th Anniversary edition contains color reproductions executed to Sendak's exacting specifications, with lush results. The limited edition is scarce, and rarely retains the card with the dated (Oct. 88) Wild Thing drawing. Given the 1988 drawing and Sendak's 1991 inscription, it's likely this was one of his retained author copies. But most of all, it is the association of this copy - speaking to the mutual respect of giants in the field, and testifying to the depth of loss experienced by the gay community during the AIDS crisis - that makes it such a powerful object. 9'' x 10'' (book). Publisher's full blue leather stamped in gold. All edges gilt. In original lined cloth box with large color plate on front board. One of only 220 copies. Illustrated by Sendak in color throughout. 48 pages. Envelope laid in with 6.5'' x 5.5'' card inscribed by Sendak: "For Jim - a special picture for his birthday - Love - Maurice - Oct. 10, '91" under a pen-and-ink drawing of Max dressed as a Wild Thing, additionally signed "Maurice Sendak / Oct. 88."
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.