Seuss, Dr (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

Estimate

500 - 700 GBP

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Description

Seuss, Dr (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
How the Grinch stole Christmas! New York: Random House, 1957
Paper

4to (278 x 202mm.), FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with thirteen Dr. Seuss titles listed at the end of the text and correct advert for The Cat in the Hat priced at $2.00 on the lower cover), pictorial boards, first issue DUST-JACKET (with "250/250" on the upper flap and fourteen titles listed on the lower flap), two ownership stamps on front free endpaper, repaired tears to edges of dust-jacket with some sensitive colour restoration

Catalogue Note

Writing in Redbook magazine in December 1957, just after the title's publication, Seuss explained the origins of his story's villain: “I was brushing my teeth on the morning of the 26th of last December when I noted a very Grinchish countenance in the mirror. It was Seuss!”