Dear Mili Maurice Sendak Illustrator Wilhelm Grimm 1988 First Edition

Published in New York in 1988: Farrar, Straus and Giroux . First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0374317623 . Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Small stain, foxing on back panel as shown in pictures. Stated First Edition, 9.8 X 9.1 X 0.4 inches; 40 pages .
On September 28, 1983, the discovery of a previously unknown tale by Wilhelm Grimm was reported on the front page of The New York Times. "After more than 150 years," the Times noted, "Hansel and Gretel, Snow-White, Rumpelstiltskin, and Cinderella will be joined by another Grimm fairy-tale character." The story of dear Mili was preserved in a letter Wilhelm Grimm wrote to a little girl in 1816, a letter that remained in her family's possession for over a century and a half.
MAURICE SENDAK (1928–2012) was one of the preeminent children's book illustrators and authors of the twentieth century. Best-known for the Caldecott Medal–winning Where the Wild Things Are. National Medal of Arts and other awards.