NMLP P-044231 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19
A Hole Is to Dig
Ruth Krauss (illus. Maurice Sendak) · Harper & Brothers (New York) · 1952
The operative state point, per Hanrahan A4, is the ABSENCE of the "Grr-r-r" at the foot of the leaf showing the child making a bed — cited as page 23 by most dealers and as leaf 13 recto by others (the book is unpaginated, so leaf counts differ)
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-044231 for "A Hole Is to Dig" by Ruth Krauss (illus. Maurice Sendak) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044231, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).