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  "For Maurice with many thanks for the Future!": Exceptional association copy of Dr. Seuss' The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins; inscribed by him to fellow children's book legend Maurice Sendak

  SEUSS, Dr. [Theodor Seuss Geisel]; Maurice Sendak.

  The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins.

  New York: The Vanguard Press, 1938.

  First edition, early printing of Seuss's unique book of prose. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the pastedown, "For Maurice with many thanks for the Future! Dr. Seuss." The recipient, Maurice Sendak, is best known for his immensely popular illustrated children’s book, Where the Wild Things Are, which was awarded the Caldecott Medal in 1964 and gained him international fame. Sendak acquired the present volume, which had been previously signed by Seuss on the verso of the front free endpaper "For Alice, Best Wishes - Dr. Seuss", and brought it to the July 1, 1980 American Library Association Conference in New York where Seuss inscribed it personally to him, as is notated in Sendak's small ownership inscription above Seuss's. At that time, Sendak and Seuss would have been two of the most popular, and perhaps even controversial best-selling children's author in attendance. Sendak's career was launched in 1952 with the publication of Ruth Krauss's A Hole Is to Dig. Their author-illustrator collaboration, facilitated by Harper & Row publisher and editor-in-chief of juvenile books Ursula Nordstrom, became something of a cultural phenomenon, spawning a host of imitators of their “unruly” and “rebellious” child protagonists. Now one of the scarcest and most desir...

  Price: $15,000.00     Item Number: 135672

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