Details

Subject(s)

• Nursery rhymes [Browse]
• Children's poetry [Browse]

Summary note

Joins together two traditional nursery rhymes with illustrations depicting the plight and eventual triumph of orphaned and homeless children. With a benevolent moon as their guardian, Jack and Guy make their way out of the dumps, rescue a poor little kid with a black eye, and bring him home to triumph. In this, as in all his greatest books, Sendak speaks for children everywhere. They will recognize that what matters to him also matters, intensely, to them.

Notes

• "Michael di Capua books"--T.p. verso.
• Princeton copy 1: A set of uncorrected, advance proofs from the publisher, sent to Mr. Cotsen at the request of Maurice Sendak.
• Princeton copy 1: TLS to Lloyd Cotsen dated 25 May 1993 from Glenn Pudelka, editorial assistant at Michael di Capua Books, HarperCollins laid in.
• Princeton copy 2: Sendak has connected the two rhymes "We Are All in the Dumps (Opie 523) and "Jack and Guy Went Out in the Rye" (Opie 253) to form a narrative, which he has interpreted as a nightmarish vision about homeless children who have the tenacity to survive in a desolate urban landscape. Hand lettering by Jeanyee Wong.
• Princeton copy 2: Inscribed with a drawing of Jack on the half-title: For the Lloyd Cotsen library, Hey I love you guy! Maurice Sendak Sept. 93.'
• Princeton copy 2: With reviews from the book review sections of the Los Angeles and New York Times laid in.

Binding note

• Princeton copy 1: Red color-printed pictorial wrapper laid in modern red linen clamshell box.
• Princeton copy 2: Pub. tan bds., red color-printed pictorial dust jacket, and tan textured endpapers.

Provenance

Princeton copy 2: Sendak, Maurice, inscriber

Other title(s)

• We are all in the dumps.
• Jack and Guy.

ISBN

• 0062050141 :
• 9780062050144

LCCN

93077287

OCLC

28758019

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