The Cunning Little Vixen.

TESNOHLIDEK, Rudolf. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.

$275.00

Item Number: 140351

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985.

First edition of Rudolf Tesnohlidek’s classic Czech tale, translated into English and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Presentation copy, inscribed by the illustrator on the half-title page, “For Nicholas Robertson Maurice Sendak.” Translated by Tatiana Firkusny, Maritza Morgan, and Robert T. Jones. Afterword by Robert T. Jones. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

Deftly poised between poetry and farce, The Cunning Little Vixen focuses on two characters, the forester Bartos, a man coming to grips with nature, and Vixen Sharp-Ears, an innocent who abandons innocence in order to survive and emerges as one of the most memorable heroines in Middle European fiction.