308. SENDAK, Maurice (b. 1928) Good Shabbos, Everybody [New York:] United Synagogue Commission on Jewish Education [1951]. 4to. [26pp.]. By Robert Garvey. Decorated boards. first and only edition. Condition: minor wear along the edges.
Caldecott Medal-winner Leonard Weisgard was Art Consultant for the United Synagogue Commission of Education when he saw one of Sendak’s window displays for F. A. O. Schwartz in New York and hired him to illustrate his first picture book Good Shabbos, Everybody. This fragile book is now extremely rare and seldom in this condition. Hanrahan A3.
[With:] Best in Children’s Books. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1960-1961. Volumes 31, 35 and 41. Condition: Minor wear with some chipping of dust jackets.
Sendak contributed to only three volumes of Best in Children’s Books, including the charming pictures for Margery Williams’ modern classic “The Velveteen Rabbit” in Vol. 35. None of Sendak’s pictures in this popular series have been reprinted in any other work.
est. $800 – $1200