Descrizione

First Edition, with proper date code on front jacket flap (0564/50 up) and price of $2.95 and with no subsequent dates on copyright page. Mary Edwards' copy, Wahl's editor. illustrated throughout by Maurice Sendak. 4to, publisher's original printed paper-covered boards featuring a Maurice Sendak illustration in colour on the front board, in the original dustjacket 66pp. A fine copy of the book with just the lightest hint of rubbing to the bottom edges, in an attractive jacket with a some chips and wear along the edges, fold lines and a small tear repaired from the rear.

Edizione: the author's first children's book, and illustrated by sendak the same year he won the caldecott award for 'where the wild things are." a charming children's book, and one of the last illustrated by sendek prior to becoming enormously famous. this can be considered a very early entry in the careers of two 20th-century masters of children's literature.<br> the book consists of six gentle, loosely connected tales about pleasant fieldmouse and the other animals who live in his forest. his neighbors include wonderfully named characters such as mrs. worry-wind hedgehog, graybeard tortoise, haunted beaver, tired fox, and terrible owl. pleasant gets himself into small adventures—pretending to be a fireman, planning picnics, tending a remarkable talking rose, and trying to behave bravely and heroically.