Nutcracker.

(Sendak.) HOFFMANN (E.T.A.)

Nutcracker.

Translated by Ralph Manheim. Pictures by Maurice Sendak.

Description: FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, colour-printed illustrations by Sendak throughout, pp. xiv, [4], 102, 4to, original indigo cloth, lettered in silver to backstrip and upper board, the latter with blind-stamped border, slight lean to spine, illustrated endpapers, the flyleaf with bookplate tipped in, dustjacket a mite rubbed, very good

Publication Details: The Bodley Head, 1984

Notes: Signed by the illustrator, Maurice Sendak, on the half-title. A charming edition of the classic Christmas tale, the illustrations including a lurking Wild Thing.

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