Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Corsaro, Frank. The Love For Three Oranges: The Glyndebourne Version. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1984.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO PREVIOUS OWNER BY FRANK CORSARO. 1st Edition. Hard bound. Original clear dust wrapper is chipped and torn. Bottom right hand corners of boards are slightly bumped, otherwise in very good condition.
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by Sendak on bookplate on half title page. Cloth Hardcover in Clear Dust Jacket. 119 [9] pp. 7.5" x 11". Very Good Condition. Please examine photos closely. Limited light shelf wear to covers. Binding is firm. Interior is clean, bright, free of markings other than as noted. Clear Jacket has original price sticker on flap, shows wear, loss to corners & edges, loss to rear left side. Local buyers are welcome to pick item up at our store in Rochester on Monroe Ave. Please ask any questions before purchase.
Seller: Before Your Quiet Eyes, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The American trade edition of an account of Corsaro's and Sendak's preparation of Serge Prokofiev's opera L'Amour des Trois Oranges. The text is presented in an interview format, with alternating comments by Corsaro (the director) and Sendak, who designed the stage and costumes. Illustrated with reproductions of Sendak's sketches for the production. Hanrahan, Works of Maurice Sendak, A117, which indicates that the UK edition was published before this US edition. First US edition (first printing). A near fine copy (a bit of denting to the board edges). Lacking the clear acetate jacket. Signed by Sendak on the title page.
Seller: Downtown Brown Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
[SENDAK, MAURICE] CORSARO, FRANK.. The Love For Three Oranges. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1984, 1984.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Corsaro and by Sendak, who designed the production. As new in the publisher's slipcase. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 119 pages. First edition, first printing. One (44) of 200 limited numbered copies signed by Corsaro & Sendak. Text by Frank Corsaro, with comments by Maurice Sendak. Corsaro directed this Prokofiev opera at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1982, with sets and costumes by Sendak. Illustrated by Sendak, with his stage and costume designs, of which most are in color. Fine book in a fine decorated card board slipcase. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The signed, limited edition of an account of Corsaro's and Sendak's preparation of Serge Prokofiev's opera L'Amour des Trois Oranges. The text is presented in an interview format, with alternating comments by Corsaro (the director) and Sendak, who designed the stage and costumes. Illustrated with reproductions of Sendak's sketches for the production. This is one of 200 numbered copies signed by Corsaro and Sendak issued in an illustrated-paper-covered slipcase. Hanrahan, Works of Maurice Sendak, A118. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine slipcase. Not issued with a dust jacket. This is copy 152.
Seller: Downtown Brown Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Quarto, 119+ pages, beige cloth; issued with a publisher's mylar dust jacket (torn at upper right corner, front flap vertically creased affeting the price tag, rear panel of mylar jacket chipped and creased at top) This is an "opera within an opera" by Prokofieff, with a translationi by Tom Stoppard. Most of Maurice Sendak's drawings are produced at full size.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$248.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A lovely First Edition (American, so stated, Hanrahan (60)), personally signed for Parrish Books at Maruice Sendak's red barn on the half-title page. This is the complete play text as it was performed in Glyndebourne with the stage and costume designs by Maurice Sendak. In fine unread condition, the book is in beige cloth with red and gold cover design and titles, with "First American Edition , 1984" on the copyright page. No dj. An absolutely beautiful copy that will truly delight any fan of Maurice Sendak's whimsical illustrations.
Seller: Parrish Books, Sandy, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 200 numbered copies signed by Sendak and Corsaro on the colophon page. Fine in fine slipcase.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited edition: this copy is number 55 of 200 copies. SIGNED by the author and illustrator. A bit faded along the spine, else fine in a fine slipcase. ; Signed by Author & Illustrator B00BNVAD02
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Maurice Sendak and Frank Corsaro. The Love for Three Oranges. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Pristine condition #122 of edition of 122 Signed by the author and artist Comes with original decorated hard slip-cover
Seller: Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Corsaro, Frank & Sendak, Maurice. THE LOVE FOR THREE ORANGES. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984.
Price: US$261.00 + shipping
Description: THE LOVE FOR THREE ORANGES, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984, first edition, fine in like slip-case and mailer carton with color illustrations on almost every page. 1/200 copies SIGNED by the author and artist, the later revealing his costume designs for the title Prokofiev opera.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Tall 8vo. 126 pp. Illustrated. Cloth in slipcase, as new. (39665). Limited edition #97 of 250 copies signed by Frank Corsaro and Maurice Sendak.
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A lovely First Edition (American, so stated, Hanrahan (60)), signed for Parrish Books by Maurice Sendak on the half-title page at his home in Connecticut. This is the complete play text as it was performed in Glyndebourne with the stage and costume designs by Maurice Sendak. In fine unread condition, the book is in beige cloth with red and gold cover design and titles, with "First American Edition , 1984" on the copyright page. With the original clear acetate dustjacket with the label "$30.00 FPT 374-192863 FSG."
Seller: Parrish Books, Sandy, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: .#26 of 200 copies. Orange brown cloth with small paste-down on front, light tan slipcase, Sendak design in brown, all, as new condition, 125 pp. Dialogue between the authors about the opera and production, color illus throughout, signed.
Seller: Ragabooks, Palo Alto, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Tan cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on spine; burgundy illustrations on front and back; no jacket; pictorial endpapers; 127 pages; mostly color illustrations; FAE; signed on title page by both Corsaro and Sendak. Fine condition. New plastic protective jacket. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
Seller: The Old Sage Bookshop, Prescott, AZ, U.S.A.