Iona Opie Maurice Sendak I SAW ESAU Double Signed Limited Edition

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Iona Opie Maurice Sendak I SAW ESAU Double Signed Limited Edition

Limited edition slipcased hardback of I SAW ESAU (The Schoolchild's Pocket Book) edited by Iona & Peter Opie, illustrated by Maurice Sendak and published by Walker Books in 1992. Signed by Sendak and Iona Opie on the limitation page. Number 99 of 300 copies printed, preceding the American edition. Housed in the original paper wrapper.

The book is in fine condition (green boards with gold lettering to spine) with no significant wear. The book is in a fine slipcase that also has no wear to speak of.

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me."

That's what children chant when they are being teased; it's what their parents chanted, and their grandparents and their great grandparents before them. Collected in this invaluable book are the wit and wisdom of generations of schoolchildren more than one hundred and seventy rhymes ranging from insults and riddles to tongue twisters, jeers and jump-rope rhymes.

With Iona Opie's introduction and detailed notes and Maurice Sendak's remarkable pictures vignettes, sequences, and full-page paintings both wickedly funny and comically sad this book offers knowledge and entertainment to all who open it. Like a collection of Mother Goose nursery rhymes or Grimms fairy tales, I Saw Esau deserves a place among the classic texts of childhood.

160 pages including Notes.

ISBN: 0744525292

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