[Children's & Illustrated] [Sendak, Maurice], Group of

[Children's & Illustrated] [Sendak, Maurice]
Group of Nine Titles Illustrated by Maurice Sendak
Including:
1. Eidinoff, Maxwell Leigh, and Ruchlis, Hyman. Atomics For the Millions. New York: McGraw/Whittlesey, (1947). Second printing. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in red and in gilt, in original dust-jacket with light wear to extremities, price-clipped. Sendak's first illustrated book. Hanrahan A1
2. Ayme, Marcel. The Wonderful Farm. New York: Harper Brothers, (1951). 8vo. Publisher's red cloth, in original dust-jacket with wear to extremities and loss to spine head. Scarce. Hanrahan A2
3. Garvey, Robert. Good Shabbos, Everybody. United Synagogue Commission, 1951. First edition. 4to. Publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards, some wear and soiling. Hanrahan A3
4. Sawyer, Ruth. Maggie Rose: Her Birthday Christmas. New York: Harper Brothers, (1952). First edition. 8vo. Publisher's pink cloth, in original dust-jacket with some repairs. Hanrahan A4
5. Krauss, Ruth. A Hole is to Dig: A First Book of First Definitions. New York: Harper & Brothers, (1952). 12mo. Five copies (first edition in dust-jacket; first edition lacking dust jacket; 1980 reprint signed by Sendak; 1989 reprint in boards; 1989 reprint in wrappers). Hanrahan A5.A lovely group of books representing Maurice Sendak's first five publications.