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Auction archive: Lot number 1187

Children's Books, Mid-20th Century, Nine Volumes.Children's Books, Mid-20th Century, Nine Volumes.

Estimate
US$300 - US$400
Price realised:
US$277
Auction archive: Lot number 1187

Children's Books, Mid-20th Century, Nine Volumes.Children's Books, Mid-20th Century, Nine Volumes.

Estimate
US$300 - US$400
Price realised:
US$277
Beschreibung:

Children's Books, Mid-20th Century, Nine Volumes. Including five titles illustrated by Maurice Sendak: Ruth Krasuss's Open House for Butterflies, New York: Harper, [1960]; Else Holmelund Minarik's No Fighting, No Biting!, New York: Harper & Row, [1958]; Robert Graves' The Big Green Book, Crowell-Collier Press, [1962], stated first Crowell-Collier edition; Sendak's Higglety Pigglety Pop!, New York: Harper & Row, [1967], in the original jacket; [and] In the Night Kitchen, New York: Harper & Row, [1970], no jacket; [Together with] Eleanor Estes's Ginger Pye, New York: Harcourt, Brace, & Co., [1951], stated first edition, Newbery Award winner, in very good publisher's cloth and jacket; Mary O'Hara's My Friend Flicka, Philadelphia: Lippincott, [1941], no dust jacket; E.B. White's Stuart Little, New York: Harper & Brothers, [1945], stated first edition, with I-U on the copyright page, no dust jacket; [and] P.L. Travers's Mary Poppins in the Park, New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1952], publisher's cloth, back panel of dust jacket torn away. (9)

Auction archive: Lot number 1187
Auction:
Datum:
23 May 2017
Auction house:
Bonhams | Skinner
Park Plaza 63
Boston, MA 02116
United States
+1 (0)617 3505400
+1 (0)617 3505429
Beschreibung:

Children's Books, Mid-20th Century, Nine Volumes. Including five titles illustrated by Maurice Sendak: Ruth Krasuss's Open House for Butterflies, New York: Harper, [1960]; Else Holmelund Minarik's No Fighting, No Biting!, New York: Harper & Row, [1958]; Robert Graves' The Big Green Book, Crowell-Collier Press, [1962], stated first Crowell-Collier edition; Sendak's Higglety Pigglety Pop!, New York: Harper & Row, [1967], in the original jacket; [and] In the Night Kitchen, New York: Harper & Row, [1970], no jacket; [Together with] Eleanor Estes's Ginger Pye, New York: Harcourt, Brace, & Co., [1951], stated first edition, Newbery Award winner, in very good publisher's cloth and jacket; Mary O'Hara's My Friend Flicka, Philadelphia: Lippincott, [1941], no dust jacket; E.B. White's Stuart Little, New York: Harper & Brothers, [1945], stated first edition, with I-U on the copyright page, no dust jacket; [and] P.L. Travers's Mary Poppins in the Park, New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1952], publisher's cloth, back panel of dust jacket torn away. (9)

Auction archive: Lot number 1187
Auction:
Datum:
23 May 2017
Auction house:
Bonhams | Skinner
Park Plaza 63
Boston, MA 02116
United States
+1 (0)617 3505400
+1 (0)617 3505429
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