A Hole is to Dig process art by Maurice Sendak, sketch of cover art

A Hole is to Dig process art by Maurice Sendak, sketch of cover art

Photographic scan of jacket of A Hole is to Dig: A First Book of Definitions, Ruth Krauss, illustrated by Maurice Sendak, New York: Harper and Brothers, 1952. Scan of process art. The left side shows a rough version of the back cover of the jacket, while the opposite side shows a similar version of the front cover. Title, subtitle and creator content are sketched in black ink. Both cover and back-cover are bordered in a thin squiggly line and painted gray, with illustrations of children playing backgrounded by swaths of cream and very pale green.

Ruth Krauss

Hamish Hamilton

1963

Maurice Sendak

Krauss, Ruth. A Hole is to Dig. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak, Hamish Hamilton, 1963.