Ruth Krauss Open House For Butterflies True and similar items

OPEN HOUSE FOR BUTTERFLIES by Ruth Krauss Pictures by Maurice Sendak [New York]: Harper Brothers, (1960). First edition, true first printing. Cloth-backed pictorial boards, illustrated endpapers; with dust jacket. Top right corner of the front flap of the dust jacket has the $1.50 price with the lower corner flap clipped by the publisher (where the School Edition price of $1.84 originally was). At the lower left of the front flap, following the blurb is 30-70 with No. 9429A below. The rear flap has four reviews of A HOLE IS TO DIG Followed by Harper Brothers with No. 9430A to the left below. All these points conform to Hanrahan's description of a first edition in entry A39. Neat ownership signature to the top of the front endpaper, mild shelf wear, else a near fine clean copy; in a very good, lightly shelf worn dust jacket with minor chipping to the spine ends and flap fold corners, mild fading to the spine, and the tanned shadow of where the original Blue Ribbon Book seal once was. A small format picture book with captioned black-and-white whimsical illustrations of children at play by Maurice Sendak, the author and artist of A HOLE IS TO DIG. The last and arguably best collaboration of Krauss and Sendak. 16mo. Unpaginated. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!