GRIMM Fairy Tales Maurice SENDAK 1st Edition 1973 JUNIPER TREE Dark Tales Lore

by Brothers Grimm, Lore Segal, Maurice Sendak

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First edition

.no-subscribe { display: none} [contenteditable] { pointer-events: none; } The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm by Brothers Grimm; Translated By Lore Segal Illustrated By Maurice Sendak Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1973. First edition. Very good hardcovers (2 volumes), in very good dust jackets, housed in original pictorial slipcase. Tight bindings, solid spines, clean unmarked text, light wear to dustjackets, tear to slip case illustration. Small square octavos, Volume 1: 168 pages, Volume 2: pages 169-332. Gilt-stamped ornament on brown cloth over boards, gilt-stamped spines, dark brown endpapers, illustrated. In 1973, two titans of children's literature converged to create what stands as perhaps the most artistically distinguished edition of Grimm's fairy tales ever produced for American readers. Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak jointly culled 27 from the 210 stories in the complete collection, and their contents page presents a fascinating critical statement. Four years after revolutionizing picture books with Where the Wild Things Are, Sendak, largely self-taught but constantly developing new visual languages, expanded the boundaries of traditional illustration by bringing his distinctive cross-hatching technique and psychological penetration to these darker, more complex tales. The selection itself reveals sophisticated literary judgment, moving beyond sanitized Disney versions to embrace stories like "The Juniper Tree," with its themes of child

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Year: 1973
• Condition: Very Good

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