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[New York]: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated. Quarter grey cloth over pictorial boards printed on white paper, the boards' illustrations match those of the jacket. Colorful illustrated endpapers and pastedowns (the endpapers and pastedowns depict flowers and plants of many colors). Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With the codes 40-80 and 1163 on the jacket's front flap, the jacket's front flap's bottom corner is clipped. The rear flap of the dust jacket mentions the book winning the 1964 Caldecott Award and mentions the book being chosen as the Best Illustrated Children's Book of 1963 by the New York Times. A collector has affixed a Caldecott Medal sticker to the jacket's front panel. Illustrated with full-page colorful drawings done by Sendak. Hanrahan A58. Our copy is a first edition, first printing book with a slightly later dust jacket. Our book has the correct statement and the correct…

Where the Wild Things Are is a 1963 children's picture book by American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, originally published by Harper & Row. The book has been adapted into other media several times, including an animated short in 1973 (with an updated version in 1988), a 1980 opera, and a live-action 2009 feature-film adaptation. The book tells the story of Max, a young boy who dresses up as a wolf and uses his imagination to travel to a wild forest where he meets creatures called Wild Things.

Identify first edition copies by locating 'Library of Congress catalog card number: 63-21253' on the title page and the absence of the Caldecott Medal on the dust jacket.