A Kiss for Little Bear.

ILLUSTRATED BY SENDAK, Maurice; Else Holmelund Minarik.

Item Number: 19028

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1968.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Maurice Sendak on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.

The first book in the series was published in 1957, written by Else Holmelund Minarik and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Initially the stories were simple, but eventually became more sophisticated in subsequent books as the plot and characters expanded.