THE LITTLE COW AND THE TURTLE

by Maurice Sendak, Meindert DeJong

$500 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition · Signed

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955 . Signed first edition of this bucolic narrative of an adventurous cow, issued the year after DeJong's Newbery award-winning THE WHEEL ON THE SCHOOL also illustrated by Sendak . Very good in very good jacket. Item #55739 A somewhat early work in Sendak's long career, which began as an illustrator only; this book was published the year before his debut as an author-illustrator. After

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