Fine in original oatmeal cloth with circular pictorial onlay to the front cover. Internally fine and spotless. Just about fine pictorial dust jacket with just the slightest wear to the head of the jacket spine. All first issue points are present (no Caldecott medallion, $4.95 price, 7 titles listed on the back flap, code 1070 on the bottom front flap). A Caldecott Honor book and #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!