The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm, First Edition, Illustrated, Box Set

The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm, Lore Segal; Maurice Sendak, First Edition, Illustrated, Box Set, 1973. Hardcover, illustrated, slipcase. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. Beautiful vintage set of two volumes translated by Lore Segal with four tales translated by Randall Jarrell. Selected by Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak. First Edition with no additional printings listed. Lavishly illustrated with over 20 black and white plates by Maurice Sendak. 332 pages. Both books are in great condition With only some wear on slipcase and tearing on dust jackets. Original price clipped off on each book. slipcase measures 6 x 7.5 x 2. From the dustjacket flap: "The Juniper Tree is distinguished first by the selection of stories…Along with such standard stories as 'Hansel and Gretel', 'The Fisherman and His Wife', and 'The Frog King', there are many that most readers will not know at all. Chief among these is the title story, a masterpiece that modern anxieties seem to have suppressed. "The translations are another distinguishing quality of the Segal/Sendak edition. Both translators have been painstakingly faithful to the German texts, they have not cut, 'retold', or bowdlerized. In addition, Lore Segal and Randall Jarrell bring to their renderings of Grimm the grace and precision that are characteristic of their own original prose."