Monday, June 25, 2007

This Day In History: Beatles record "All You Need Is Love" (1967)

1967 : Beatles record "All You Need Is Love"
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1. BURT, Rob and WELLS, Michael (concept).
Beatles Musical Pop Up.

NY Bonanza 1985 051749633X Hardcover
Illustrations by Mike Peterkin and Peter Campbell. Paper engineering by Ian Honeybone. First American edition. All pop-ups are intact and in good working order. Sound chip playing "Hey Jude" is no longer working, else near fine in glossy illusta trated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. ISBN: 051749633X.
Price: 75.00 USD
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2. GOODGOLD, Edwin & CARLINSKY, Dan.
Complete Beatles Quiz Book.

NY Bell 1982 0517387700 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
A reprint edition. First printing thus. About fine in like dust jacket.
Price: 15.00 USD
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3. HEMENWAY, Robert.
Girl Who Sang with the Beatles and Other Stories.

NY Knopf 1970 Hardcover
The author's first book. First edition. Very good in a very good (minor wear) dust jacket.
Price: 20.00 USD
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4. HIERONIMUS, Dr. Robert R.
Inside the Yellow Submarine: The Making of the Beatles' Animated Classic.

Iola Krause Publications 2002 0873493605 Paperback
Illustrated. First edition (paperback). As new in illustrated wraps. ISBN: 0873493605.
Price: 12.00 USD
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5. MARCHBANK, Pearce (editor).
With the Beatles: The Historic Photographs of Dezo Hoffmann.

London Omnibus Press 1982 0711901112 Paperback
Black and white photographs throughout. First edition (paperback). About fine in oversized pictorial wraps. ISBN: 0711901112.
Price: 15.00 USD
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6. SCHAFFNER, Nicholas.
Beatles Forever.

Harrisburg Cameron House 1978 0811702251 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
400 illustrations - mostly black and white. Fourth printing thus. Bottom corners slightly bumped, else fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
Price: 15.00 USD
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7. WILK, Max.
Beatles: Yellow Submarine.

NY Signet (New American Library) 1968 Paperback
Color illustrations throughout. First printing thus (mass market paperback). Near fine in illustrated wraps.
Price: 20.00 USD
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This Day In History: Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal is published (1857)

1857 : Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal is published
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1. BAUDELAIRE, Charles.
Baudelaire as a Literary Critic: Selected Essays.

University Park Pennsylvania State University Press 1964 Hardcover
Introduced and translated from the French by Lois Boe Hyslop and Francis E. Hyslop, Jr. First edition thus. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: 20.00 USD
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2. BAUDELAIRE, Charles.
Intimate Journals of Charles Baudelaire.

Hollywood Marcel Rodd 1947 Hardcover
Translated from the French by Christopher Isherwood. With an introduction by W. H. Auden. First edition thus. Near fine in a very good (short closed edge tear at base of front panel, age darkened) dust jacket.
Price: 50.00 USD
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3. BAUDELAIRE, Charles.
My Heart Laid Bare and Other Prose Writings.

London Soho Book Company 1986 094816607X Paperback
Translated from the French by Norman Cameron. Edited with an introduction by Peter Quennell. First edition thus (paperback). Uniform age toning to page edges, else very good or better in printed wraps. ISBN: 094816607X.
Price: 100.00 USD
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4. BAUDELAIRE, Charles.
Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal.

Chicago University of Chicago Press 1998 0226039250 Hardcover Fine
A bilingual edition (French and English). Translated from the French by Norman R. Shapiro. Engravings by David Schorr. First printing thus. Fine in a fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0226039250.
Price: 25.00 USD
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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Born on this Day: Harriet (Elizabeth) Beecher Stowe

Harriet (Elizabeth) Beecher Stowe
Writer, born in Litchfield, Connecticut, USA, the daughter of Lyman Beecher . Raised by her severe Calvinist father, she was educated and then taught at the Hartford Female Seminary (founded by her sister Catherine Beecher ). Moving to Cincinnati with her father (1832), she
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1. BEECHER, Catherine E. and STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
American Woman's Home.

Hartford Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 1996 0917482042 Paperback
Seventh printing thus (paperback). About fine in illustrated wraps. ISBN: 0917482042.
Price: 35.00 USD
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2. STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Oldtown Folks and Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories (two volumes).

NY AMS Press 1967 Hardcover
Complete in two volumes. A reprint edition. Both volumes are ex-library copies with typical markings, else very good in brown cloth. No dust jackets.
Price: 50.00 USD
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3. STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine.

NY AMS Press 1967 Hardcover
A reprint edition. Ex-library copy with typical markings, else very good in brown cloth. No dust jacket.
Price: 15.00 USD
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4. STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Poganuc People.

Hartford Stowe-Day Foundation 1987 0917482069 Paperback
Second printing thus (paperback). Fine in illustrated wraps. ISBN: 0917482069.
Price: 15.00 USD
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5. STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Religious Studies: Sketches and Poems.

NY AMS Press 1967 Hardcover
A reprint edition. Ex-library copy with typical markings, else very good in brown cloth. No dust jacket.
Price: 50.00 USD
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6. STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Stories and Sketches for the Young.

NY AMS Press 1967 Hardcover
A reprint edition. Ex-library copy with typical markings, else very good in brown cloth. No dust jacket.
Price: 30.00 USD
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7. STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Stories, Sketches and Studies.

NY AMS Press 1967 Hardcover
A reprint edition. Ex-library copy with typical markings, else very good in brown cloth. No dust jacket.
Price: 35.00 USD
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Born on this Day: Jerzy (Nikodem) Kosinski

Jerzy (Nikodem) Kosinski
Writer, born in Lodz, Poland, USA. He had a horrific childhood hiding from the Nazis during World War 2, and a tenuous existence under the Stalinists in Poland. He studied at the University of Lodz (1950 BA; MAs 1953, 1955) and did postgraduate work in sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences (1955–7). Emigrating... biography.com/search/article.do?id=9368591

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1. (Jerzy Kosinski) TEICHOLZ, Tom (editor).
Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski.

Jackson University Press of Mississippi 1993 0878056262 Paperback
First paperback edition. Fine in pictorial wraps. ISBN: 0878056262.
Price: 10.00 USD
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2. KOSINSKI, Jerzy.
Devil Tree.

NY Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1973 0151253285 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
First printing. Small red ink stain at the upper corner of the front board and on the fore edge, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket that also has red ink stains on verso and front flap; also a bit of soiling on front panel.
Price: 20.00 USD
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3. KOSINSKI, Jerzy.
Devil Tree: Revised and Expanded Edition.

NY St. Martin's 1981 0312197942 Hardcover
First edition thus. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0312197942.
Price: 30.00 USD
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4. KOSINSKI, Jerzy.
Hermit of 69th Street: The Working Papers of Norbert Kosky.

NY Holt 1988 0805006117 Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket
First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: 15.00 USD
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5. KOSINSKI, Jerzy.
Painted Bird.

Boston Houghton Mifflin 1965 Hardcover
Second printing. Near fine in a very good (light foxing), price clipped dust jacket.
Price: 100.00 USD
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6. KOSINSKI, Jerzy.
Pinball.

NY Bantam 1982 0553050079 Hardcover Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
First printing. Fine in a very near fine (small tear at upper right corner of the front panel) dust jacket.
Price: 30.00 USD
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Born on this Day: Donald Trump

Donald (John) Trump
Real estate developer, mogul. Born Donald John Trump, on June 14,
1946, in Queens, New York, the fourth of five children of Frederick C.
and Mary MacLeod Trump. Read Full Biography Article: biography.com/search/article.do?id=9511238

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1. TRUMP, Donald J. with LEERHSEN, Charles.
Trump: Surviving at the Top.

NY Random House 1990 0394575970 Hardcover Fine
First printing. SIGNED by Donald Trump. Fine in a fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0394575970.
Price: 400.00 USD
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2. TRUMP, Donald J. with LEERHSEN, Charles.
Trump: Surviving at the Top.

NY Random House 1990 0394575970 Hardcover Fine
First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0394575970.
Price: 45.00 USD
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3. TRUMP, Donald J. with SCHWARTZ, Tony.
Trump: The Art of the Deal.

NY Random House 1987 0394555287 Hardcover Fine
Black and white photographs. Seventh printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0394555287.
Price: 30.00 USD
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4. TRUMP, Donald J. with SCHWARTZ, Tony.
Trump: The Art of the Deal.

NY Random House 1987 0394555287 Hardcover Fine
Black and white photographs. First edition. Hint of foxing to top and fore edges, else fine in a fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0394555287.
Price: 45.00 USD
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5. TRUMP, Donald J. with SCHWARTZ, Tony.
Trump: The Art of the Deal.

NY Random House 1987 0394555287 Hardcover
Black and white photographs. First edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0394555287.
Price: 35.00 USD
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

This Day In History: Rockefeller clan grows (1915)

1915 : Rockefeller clan grows
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1. ETTLING, John.
Germ of Laziness: Rockefeller Philanthropy and Public Health in the New South.

Cambridge Harvard University Press 1981 0674349903 Hardcover
First edition. Previous owner's name blacked out on front paste-down, else about fine in a very near fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0674349903.
Price: 50.00 USD
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2. NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF GENERAL SERVICES.
Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection and Plaza Memorials.

NY Rizzoli 2002 0847824551 Hardcover
Foreword by George E. Pataki. Illustrated. First edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0847824551.
Price: 35.00 USD
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This Day In History: Journalist headed for Little Big Horn files dispatch (1876)

1876 : Journalist headed for Little Big Horn files dispatch
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1. HOFLING, Charles K.
Custer and the Little Big Horn: A Psychobiographical Inquiry.

Detroit Wayne State University Press 1981 0814316689 Hardcover
First edition. Trace foxing along top edge, else near fine in a near fine (light shelf wear) dust jacket. ISBN: 0814316689.
Price: 15.00 USD
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This Day In History: Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman murdered

1994 : Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman murdered
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1. SIMPSON, O. J.
If I Did It.

NY HarperCollins (Regan) 2006 0061238287 Hardcover
First printing. Corners and spine ends slightly bumped, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0061238287.
Price: 2000.00 USD
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2. SIMPSON, O. J. with AXTHELM, Pete.
O. J.: The Education of a Rookie.

NY Macmillan 1970 Hardcover Fine
Black and white photographs. First printing. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper and copyright page, else fine in an about fine dust jacket.
Price: 35.00 USD
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Born on this Day: Brigid Brophy

Brigid (Antonia Susan) Brophy
"Writer and critic, born in London, UK. She studied at Oxford, and married Sir Michael Levey in 1954. Her novels included Hackenfeller's Ape (1953), Flesh (1962), In Transit (1970), and Palace Without Chairs (1978). Among her non-fiction titles are Black Ship to Hell (1962) and Black and White: a Portrait of Aubrey..." biography.com/search/article.do?id=9227766

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1. BROPHY, Brigid.
Adventures of God in His Search for the Black Girl.

Boston Little, Brown 1974 0316109762 Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
First American edition. Near fine in a very good (minor edge wear and a couple of short closed edge tears) dust jacket.
Price: 15.00 USD
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2. BROPHY, Brigid.
Beardsley and His World.

NY Harmony Books 1976 051752628X Hardcover
With 122 black and white illustrations. First American edition. Fine in a very near fine, price clipped dust jacket. ISBN: 051752628X.
Price: 15.00 USD
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3. BROPHY, Brigid.
Black and White: A Portrait of Aubrey Beardsley.

NY Stein and Day 1969 Hardcover
Illustrated. First American edition. Review copy with slip laid in. "Review Copy" stamped on title page, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: 18.00 USD
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Born on this Day: Anne Frank

Anne Frank
"Jewish diarist and concentration camp victim, born in Frankfurt, WC Germany. Her family fled from the Nazis to The Netherlands in 1933, and after the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands she hid with her family and four others in a sealed-off office flat in Amsterdam from 1942 until they were betrayed in 1944." Read Full Biography Article: biography.com/search/article.do?id=9300892

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1. FRANK, Anne.
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

Garden City Doubleday 1967 Hardcover
Translated from the Dutch by B. M. Mooyaart-Doubleday. Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt. A later printing. Very good in a very good (minor shelf wear) dust jacket.
Price: 20.00 USD
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2. GRAVER, Lawrence.
Obsession with Anne Frank: Meyer Levin and the Diary.

Berkeley University of California Press 1995 0520201248 Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket
Second printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: 15.00 USD
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Monday, June 11, 2007

Born on this Day: Richard Strauss

Richard Strauss
"Composer, born in Munich, SE Germany. He studied at Munich and Berlin, and conducted at Meiningen, Munich, Weimar, Bayreuth, and Berlin. He is best known for his symphonic poems, such as Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (1894–5, Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks) and Also
sprach Zarathustra (1895–6, Thus Spoke..." biography.com/search/article.do?id=9497013

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1. (Anthony Burgess) STRAUSS, Richard.
Der Rosenkavalier: Comedy for Music in Three Acts.

London Michael Joseph 1983 0718122100 Hardcover
Story adaptation by Anthony Burgess. Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Translated from the German by Alfred Kalisch. Color and black and white photographs. First edition thus. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0718122100.
Price: 20.00 USD
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Born on this Day: William Styron (1925)

1925 : William Styron is born
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1. STYRON, William.
Set This House on Fire.

London Hamish Hamilton 1961 Hardcover
First British edition. Very near fine in like (trace rubbing to rear panel) dust jacket. A bright, clean, and well preserved copy.
Price: 75.00 USD
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2. BLACKBURN, William (editor).
Under Twenty-five: Duke Narrative and Verse, 1945-1962.

Durham Duke University Press 1963 Hardcover
Contributions by William Styron, Guy Davenport, Ann Tyler, and Reynolds Price, among others. First edition. Previous owner's brief gift inscription on front free endpaper, else fine in a near fine, price clipped dust jacket.
Price: 25.00 USD
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Sunday, June 10, 2007

Born on this Day: Maurice Sendak

Maurice (Bernard) Sendak
Illustrator and writer of children's books, born in New York City, USA. He trained at the Art Students' League, worked as a window-dresser, encountered classic illustrators in a toy store, and was commissioned by a publisher to illustrate The Wonderful Farm (1951) by Marcel Aymé. Read more: biography.com/search/article.do?id=9478893

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1. (Maurice Sendak) GRIMM, Brothers.
King Grisly-Beard.

NY Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1973 Hardcover
Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Translated from the German by Edgar Taylor. First edition thus. Trace edge wear, else near fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued.
Price: 15.00 USD
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2. (Randolph Caldecott) BILLINGTON, Elizabeth, T. (selected and edited by).
Randolph Caldecott Treasury.

NY Warne 1978 0723261393 Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
With an appreciation by Maurice Sendak. First printing. Near fine in a very good (two short closed tears at the top of the front panel, minor edge wear) dust jacket.
Price: 40.00 USD
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3. GRIMM, Brothers.
Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm.

NY Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1974 0374180571 Hardcover Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Selected by Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak. Translated from the German by Lore Segal, with four tales translated by Randall Jarrell. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Two volumes. Second printing. Both volumes are fine in about fine dust jackets that show just a hint of age tanning along the spines. Housed in a very near fine (trace wear) slipcase.
Price: 60.00 USD
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4. HOMER, Winslow (illustrator).
Eventful History of Three Blind Mice.

NY Oxford University Press 1996 0195105583 Hardcover
Part of The Opie Library series. Introduction by Maurice Sendak. First printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0195105583.
Price: 15.00 USD
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5. JARRELL, Randall.
Fly By Night.

NY Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1976 0374323488 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Pictures by Maurice Sendak. First edition. Near fine in a near fine (minor edge wear, spine a bit faded, creases on rear flap) dust jacket.
Price: 25.00 USD
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6. JARRELL, Randall.
Fly By Night.

NY Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1976 0374323488 Hardcover
Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. First edition. Near fine in a near fine (a bit faded along the spine), price clipped dust jacket. ISBN: 0374323488.
Price: 20.00 USD
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7. JARRELL, Randall.
Fly By Night.

NY Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1976 0374323488 Hardcover
Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. First edition. Impression from a removed sticker on front paste-down, else near fine in a very good (spot of abrasion in upper corner of front panel) dust jacket. ISBN: 0374323488.
Price: 15.00 USD
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8. MACDONALD, George.
Light Princess.

NY Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1977 Hardcover
Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Second edition with new reproductions. Book club edition. Very near fine in like dust jacket.
Price: 25.00 USD
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9. MACDONALD, George.
Portent: A Story of the Inner Vision of the Highlanders Commonly Called the Second Sight.

NY Harper & Row 1979 0062505653 Hardcover
Frontispiece by Maurice Sendak. First printing. Spine slant, else very good in a very good (two small chips near the crown of the spine, minor shelf wear), price clipped dust jacket. ISBN: 0062505653.
Price: 15.00 USD
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10. MINARIK, Else Holmelund.
Kiss for Little Bear.

NY Harper & Row 1968 Hardcover
An I Can Read book. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. A later printing. Near fine in a near fine (both corners of front flap are clipped) dust jacket.
Price: 20.00 USD
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11. PRICE, Reynolds.
Perfect Friend.

NY Atheneum 2000 0689830297 Hardcover Fine
First printing. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. Dust jacket illustrated by Maurice Sendak. ISBN: 0689830297.
Price: 25.00 USD
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12. ROSEN, Barbara, et al (editors).
When I Was a Child.

Storrs Children's Literature Association (Bibliopola Press) 1992 0939883007 Paperback
Childhood recollections of 41 children's authors and illustrators. First edition (paperback). 54 pages. Fine in wraps illustrated by Maurice Sendak. ISBN: 0939883007.
Price: 65.00 USD
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13. SENDAK, Maurice and MARGOLIS, Matthew.
Some Swell Pup or Are You Sure You Want a Dog?

NY Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1976 0374371342 Hardcover
Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. First edition. Near fine in a very good (two inch closed tear at the top of the rear panel, minor edge wear) dust jacket. ISBN: 0374371342.
Price: 30.00 USD
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