Poems from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence. Drawings

by Maurice Sendak by Maurice. Blake Sendak, William

$4,950 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

London: Bodley Head, 1967. Small 8vo, 24 pp. with 9 sepia illustrations to the text by Maurice Sendak. Illustrated card wrappers, slight age-toning, damage to lower cover repaired. ß First and only edition, limited to 275 copies printed as a gift from the publishers. One of Sendak s rarest and most sought-after books. Bentley, BBS, p.161. During a promotional tour for the British publication of Where the Wild Things Are in 1967, Sendak suffered a major heart

• Binding: Wrappers

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