Hector Protector and As I Went Over the Water: Two Nursery Rhymes.

SENDAK, Maurice.

$300.00

Item Number: 141293

New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1965.

First edition. Oblong quarto, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Willie Merry Christmas! Maurice Sendak Nov. ’87.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

Maurice Sendak has interpreted these old' Mother Goose rhymes in animated sequences that have the aliveness and immediacy of a child's own imaginings.