Maurice Sendak is famous for his picture books "Where the Wild Things Are", "In the Night Kitchen" and "Outside Over There". Over the past twenty-five years, he regularly published essys and reviews about a number of writers and illustrators whose work he admires. The subjects of his appreciation range from George MacDonald, Beatrix Potter and Randolph Caldecott to Margot Zemach, Harriet Pincus and Edward Ardizzone; from Maxfield Parrish, Walt Disney and Lothar Meggendorfer to Jean de Brunhoff, Mother Goose and Hans ...
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Maurice Sendak is famous for his picture books "Where the Wild Things Are", "In the Night Kitchen" and "Outside Over There". Over the past twenty-five years, he regularly published essys and reviews about a number of writers and illustrators whose work he admires. The subjects of his appreciation range from George MacDonald, Beatrix Potter and Randolph Caldecott to Margot Zemach, Harriet Pincus and Edward Ardizzone; from Maxfield Parrish, Walt Disney and Lothar Meggendorfer to Jean de Brunhoff, Mother Goose and Hans Christian Andersen. In these essays, and in autobiographical essays and interviews, Sendak voices his opinions on aspects of his "battle-ground", the world of the picture book. In an essay entitled "The Shape of Music" he examines the subtle ways in which music has influenced his own pictures. He also pinpoints misunderstandings about the origins of some "children's literature"; he describes how the public have misinterpreted Andersen, admiring him "only for the least part of his genius"; he bemoans the "adult censorship of subjects" and blames mid-19th century parents, who confined Meggendorfer, the Grimms and Mother Goose to the nursery, for creating the "artificial world of the juvenile book". Maurice Sendak is winner of the Caldecott Medal (1964), the Hans Christian Andersen Illustator's Medal (1970) and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (1983).
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Seller's Description:
This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 500grams, ISBN: 1871061067.
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Very Good. Size: 5x0x9; Minor surface wear to cover. Bottom right corner has light bowing/staining from minimal water damage. Otherwise a sturdy copy in great condition.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Book Near fine; very good dust jacket. 216 pp. Notes on 1st publication, index, b/w illustrations, black cloth, small gilt line decorations center front cover.
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Fine Condition. Fine Dust Jacket. //NO REMAINDER MARK//NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKS OF ANY KIND (no names or inscriptions, no bookplate, no underlining, etc) // NOT PRICECLIPPED//NEW MYLAR COVER//
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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Hardcover in dust jacket. 8vo. First printing. Book is in Fine, crisp, unread condition. Unclipped dust jacket is in Near Fine condition, with the slightest bit of wear to top edge and a slightly tanned spine. Cover art by Mr. Sendak. 216 pp.
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6___ pp. 216. Cloth bound in black centered with an embossed Sendak drawing in gold. B/w facsimiies of a few illustrations. Notes on First Publicatiom. 216pp. Pristine book, crisp, clean, tight, never read. DJ has some soil and a ruffled bit at the lower spine. Adult nonfiction. General audience.
