Lot 43
Lot 43
Selections from Maurice Sendak's Personal Collection Sold to Benefit The Rosenbach
The Hooligan Nights

Clarence Rook, 1899

    Price Realised USD 1,260
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    The Hooligan Nights

    Clarence Rook, 1899

    Price Realised USD 1,260
    Price Realised USD 1,260
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    ROOK, Clarence (1862-1915) and William NICHOLSON, illustrator (1872-1949). The Hooligan Nights. London: Grant Richards, 1899.

    First edition of Rook's rare novel of working-class life in 1890s Lambeth, with a frontispiece portrait by William Nicholson. Nicholson is perhaps best known as the illustrator of Margery Williams's The Velveteen Rabbit (1922). He also wrote and illustrated The Pirate Twins (1929), the book credited by Maurice Sendak as inspiring Where the Wild Things Are. From the library of English author and poet Richard Le Gallienne, with his bookplate alongside Sendak's.

    Octavo. Frontispiece portrait by William Nicholson, 12 pp. publisher's catalogue inserted at rear. Original buckram stamped in black and red (a little minor soiling and wear at extremities). Provenance: Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947; bookplate).
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