- Seller Inventory #: 71396
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Fine
- Jacket condition: Fine
- Illustrator: Maurice Sendak
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0786809043
- ISBN 13: 9780786809042
- Publisher: Hyperion/Michael Di Capua Books
- Place: New York
- Date published: 2003
New York: Hyperion/Michael Di Capua Books, 2003. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Maurice Sendak. Hardcover in dust jacket. Oblong 4to. First printing. One lightly bumped corner, else Fine, as new condition, crisp, clean, bright. Unclipped dust jacket is As New. Story is taken from the 1938 Czech opera of the same name by Hans Krasa (music) and Adolf Hoffmeister (libretto). During WWII Krasa was imprisoned in Terezin, where his opera was performed by the children in the camp. He was subsequently killed in Auschwitz. A handsome copy. Unpaginated. In protective Mylar.