Limited Edition Boxed Set of The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm, Signed by Maurice Sendak

Lore Segal and Randall Jarrell, trans.; Maurice Sendak, illus. THE JUNIPER TREE AND OTHER TALES FROM GRIMM. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974. Limited edition; no. 388 of 500 numbered copies. Signed by Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak on the front limitation page in volume one. Includes two hardcover, cloth-covered volumes stamped in gilt, with top edges gilt, and in dust jackets, and "an extra suite of the illustrations printed exclusively for this edition on Beckett paper under the supervision of the artist" contained loose in a thin blue cloth-covered clamshell box; all presented in a matching fitted blue cloth-covered slipcase, as issued. Tales selected by Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak; "extra suite" with a total of (27) illustrations.

Each volume 7 1/8 x 5 3/4 in.; 9 1/8 x 7 in. in box

A Private North Carolina Collection

Volumes clean with minor wear; jackets unclipped with sunned spines and mostly light edge wear; clamshell with sun fading at front edge and a small area of hinge cracking, the extra illustrations with occasional subtle edge toning; slipcase with sun fading, light staining, and shelf wear.