Fine in original oatmeal cloth with circular pictorial onlay to front cover. Just about fine pictorial dust jacket with $4.95 price intact, and ever so slight patch of rubbing on the rare jacket cover. Signed by Sendak on the title page. All first issue points present. Caldecott Honor book. #25 on the list of 100 most frequently challenged books. Thin quarto. Unpaginated. Fully illustrated with color reproductions of illustrations by Sendak. An absolutely lovely collector's copy of this classic Sendak book!