Hector Protector and As I Went Over the Water: Two Nursery Rhymes.
First Edition of Maurice Sendak's Hector Protector and As I Went Over the Water; Inscribed by Him
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.
