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Charlotte Zolotow. Mr Rabbit and the Lovely Present. Harper & Row, 1962.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed. A Caldecott Honor Book. Inscribed by the author on the dedication page ("And to Ted with love --Charlotte"). Matte pictorial boards, full-color pictures by Maurice Sendak. Spine ends and corners slightly rubbed, minor evidence of label removal from front free endpaper, else a beautifully clean copy. The jacket is price-clipped unfortunately, but except for minute wear at spine ends and corners, it is pristine (in mylar now).
Seller: Webster's Bookstore Cafe, Inc., State College, PA, U.S.A.
Zolotow, Charlotte. MR. RABBIT AND THE LOVELY PRESENT. New York, Harper & Row, 1962.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: No edition stated, or other printing or date different than 1962 listed on copyright page. Original color illustrated paper over board covers, title in black to spine and front, a touch of wear to ends and corners, no chips or tears. Dust jacket with same illustration, price clipped, 40-80 to bottom inside flap, opposite corner blank and not clipped, short closed tear to top end, no other chips or tears. Four Zolotow titles reviewed on rear flap. No award stickers embossed or affixed. No names or writing on the color illustrated end papers or in the text. Green ink inscription by Author to front blank proceeding title page. Pictures by Maurice Sendak.
Seller: BookSearch, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Signed early printing of Zolotow's classic 1962 children's story, with original signature by Sendak, whose eerie illustrations made this one of the seven Caldecott Honor Books of his career. Sendak's Mr. Rabbit, a long-legged affair with a human's height and postures but a lagomorph's head, guides Zolotow's little girl on her search for a gift for her mother through an idyllic natural landscape with a deep darkness waiting just under the hedges, beyond the trees. No Sendak works can truly be called unappreciated or underrated, but MR. RABBIT is a particular revelation. 6.75'' x 8''. Original pictorial boards. In original unpriced pictorial dust jacket with "40-80" printed on front flap. Silver Caldecott Honor Book seal to front jacket panel. Illustrated by Sendak in color. Unpaginated. Signed by Sendak on title page. Small price sticker to rear jacket panel. Minor edgewear.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Zolotow, Charlotte. Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present (signed). Harper & Row, New York, 1962.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st ed., early ptg., with all first edition points except the $2.95 price on the dj. This shows $3.50. Illustratrated in color throughout by Maurice Sendak and signed by him on the half-title. Neat owner's name and phone number in ink under front dj flap, no other owner's marks, ISBN or Caldecott medallion. A fine copy.
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
Zolotow, Charlotte. Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present. Harper and Row, 1962.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Early edition. Signed by Charlotte Zolotow on verso of front endpaper. Dustjacket with no price printed but with code 40-8- on front flap and with four reviews of Zolotow's other books on rear flap. 1963 Caldecott Honor
Seller: Find Author Author, Encinitas, CA, U.S.A.