Accession number
PML 88723
Creator
Sendak, Maurice.
Published
London : Bodley Head, 1967, ©1963 (Haarlem, Holland : Grafische Industrie)
Credit line
Purchased from Battledore Lts. on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 2017.
Notes
"First published in Great Britain 1967."
"Sendak was already famous when he suffered a heart attack while lecturing in England. He was rushed to the hospital where he was treated successfully by Dr. Anthony Rowan. The grateful author inscribed this book for Rowan and embellished the inscription with a Wild Thing bandaged across his chest. Later in the year he sent the doctor a holiday greeting card, which is laid in this copy. The Morgan also has the American edition of 'Where the Wild Things Are' inscribed to Sendak's psychiatrist. These two inscribed copies provide vivid evidence of anxieties in the artist's life that influenced his work later"--Curator's note.
Library's copy has spine perished, gatherings loose, tears in two leaves with loss.
"Sendak was already famous when he suffered a heart attack while lecturing in England. He was rushed to the hospital where he was treated successfully by Dr. Anthony Rowan. The grateful author inscribed this book for Rowan and embellished the inscription with a Wild Thing bandaged across his chest. Later in the year he sent the doctor a holiday greeting card, which is laid in this copy. The Morgan also has the American edition of 'Where the Wild Things Are' inscribed to Sendak's psychiatrist. These two inscribed copies provide vivid evidence of anxieties in the artist's life that influenced his work later"--Curator's note.
Library's copy has spine perished, gatherings loose, tears in two leaves with loss.
Description
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 25 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's inscription in ink on verso of front flyleaf: For Dr. Anthony Rowan - Gratefully, Maurice Sendak June 9, '67 (with illustration of a Wild Thing pointing to the bandage over his heart).
Provenance
Inscribed by Sendak to Dr. Anthony Rowan, 9 June 1967, with a holiday greeting card to Rowan postmarked 20 Dec. 1967; Canterbury Auction Galleries, 6 June 2017, lot 524.
Binding
Pictorial boards.
Classification
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Department