NMLP P-044236 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

A Hole Is to Dig

Ruth Krauss (illus. Maurice Sendak) · Harper & Brothers (New York) · 1952

No book-club issue documented in the sources consulted. Later-state and reprint tells are the "Grr-r-r" at the foot of page 23 and a black cloth spine, both later per Hanrahan A4. Genuine Harper & Row imprints and the later Harper Trophy paperbacks are reprints.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-044236 for "A Hole Is to Dig" by Ruth Krauss (illus. Maurice Sendak) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044236, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).