I WANT TO PAINT MY BATHROOM BLUE

by Ruth Krauss, Maurice Sendak

$1,200 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

First edition

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. First edition. Lovely first printing of one of Sendak's scarcest works, with a mid-century anti-racist message. Near fine in very good plus jacket. Item #28660 Krauss considered the rainbow-colored depiction of the narrator's friends to be a definite statement in 'race' integration, though the intended message was not so definite that contemporary

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