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[SENDAK, Maurice (1928-2012), illustrator]. KRAUSS, Ruth (1901-1993). Open House for Butterflies. [New York:] Harper & Brothers, [1960]. 12mo. Illustrated. Unpaginated. Publisher’s black cloth backstrip over pictorial boards, publisher’s clipped dust jacket (lower corner of front flap is clipped, but price of “$1.50” is visible at upper corner; boards rubbed and toned, some toning and occasional light soiling in text; tape repairs to jacket spine and lower margin of front panel (on recto and verso), jacket toned, worn, soiled). A very good copy in a fair jacket. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY WITH A LATER ORIGINAL DRAWING BY SENDAK, INSCRIBED TO PAMELA BENEPE, AND ALSO SIGNED BY RUTH KRAUSS. SCARCE. Drawing and signatures are on the verso of the ffep.