Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Maurice Sendak, Carole King. Really Rosie. Harper and Row, New York, 1975.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: near fine. signed by sendak on the title page. first edition
Seller: Coast to Coast Books, ANACORTES, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$162.00 + shipping
Description: ISBN 06-025537-4. Trade Paperback. First Printing. INSCRIBED by author. Very Good condition. A few very small stains on wraps, which are not that noticeable, and would not be worth mentioning but for the price of this book. Tight, sound, unmarked copy with only light edgewear.
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
SENDAK, Maurice. Seven Litle Monsters. Harper & Row, 1975.
Price: US$288.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: SIGNED without personalization by Sendak on Title Page. Stated First American Edition. Seven Little Monsters served as the basis for the Canadian-Chinese television production of the same name (2000-2007). Price in tact on cover. A very nearly fine copy with some toning to edges. Scarce signed Sendak. Book #P2134. $288. We specialize in rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.
Seller: PEN ULTIMATE RARE BOOKS, Pine Plains, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Scenario Lyrics & Pictures by Sendak. Music by Carole King, Design by Jane Byers Bierhorst. Oblong 4to, colored pictorial wrappers. New York: Harper & Row, (1975). First Edition Based on a CBS television production. This copy is inscribed by Sendak "For Burt Britten- happy Chicken Soup!"
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 64 pp. 1 vols. Oblong quarto. Inscribed with a Nutshell Kid vignette. Inscribed "For Bob Wilson [drawing of a Nutshell kid] Maurice Sendak / April '81". Hanrahan A91 Pictorial wrappers with $5.95 sticker to upper cover. Fine
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2755.72 + shipping
Description: Gicleé prints. Two prints measure: 37 cm x 60 cm / The signed print measures: 28 cm x 50 cm. Very good condition. Maurice Bernard Sendak (June 10, 1928 May 8, 2012) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books. He became widely known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, first published in 1963. Born to Polish-Jewish parents, his childhood was affected by the death of many of his family members during the Holocaust. Sendak also wrote works such as In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, and illustrated many works by other authors including the Little Bear books by Else Holmelund Minarik. Sendak gained international acclaim after writing and illustrating Where the Wild Things Are, edited by Ursula Nordstrom at Harper & Row. It features Max, a boy who "rages against his mother for being sent to bed without any supper". The book's depictions of fanged monsters concerned some parents when it was first published, as his characters were somewhat grotesque in appearance. Before Where the Wild Things Are, Sendak was best known for illustrating Else Holmelund Minarik's Little Bear series of books. Sendak later recounted the reaction of a fan: "A little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children's letters sometimes very hastily but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, 'Dear Jim: I loved your card.' Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said: 'Jim loved your card so much he ate it.' That to me was one of the highest compliments I've ever received. He didn't care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it." Almost fifty years later, School Library Journal sponsored a survey of readers which identified Where the Wild Things Are as a top picture book. The librarian who conducted it observed that there was little doubt what would be voted number one and highlighted its designation by one reader as a watershed, "ushering in the modern age of picture books". Another called it "perfectly crafted, perfectly illustrated . simply the epitome of a picture book" and noted that Sendak "rises above the rest in part because he is subversive." (Wikipedia)
Seller: Inanna Rare Books Ltd., Skibbereen, CORK, Ireland