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The Cat in the Hat
by Dr. Seuss
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/Not Issued
- Seller
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Manlius, New York, United States
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About This Item
First Edition Hardcover Book Issued without a dust jacket. Good to Very Good with a square and tight binding and clean, unmarked contents. Covers show bumping and light wear at tips and spine ends and are gently rubbed. True First Edition that predates the Random House Beginner Books Edition. Points include matte finish to boards, single signature binding, "by Dr. Seuss" in red on front cover, no mention of Beginner Books or For Beginning Readers and no lettering on spine. A very nice copy of this scarce and collectible edition.
Synopsis
The Cat in the Hat is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and first published in 1957. The story centers on a tall anthropomorphic cat who wears a red and white-striped hat and a red bow tie. The Cat shows up at the house of Sally and her brother on a rainy day while they are home alone. Despite the repeated objections of the children's fish, the Cat shows the children a few of his tricks in an attempt to entertain them. In the process, he and his companions, Thing One and Thing Two, wreck the house. The children and the fish become more and more alarmed until the Cat produces a machine that he uses to clean everything up and disappears just before the children's mother comes home. The Cat and the Hat inaugerated the Beginner Books Series, promoting both the Dr. Seuss name and the cause of elementary literacy in the United States.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Limestone Village Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1506
- Title
- The Cat in the Hat
- Author
- Dr. Seuss
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Book
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Not Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1957
- Pages
- 61
- Size
- 23 cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Classics; Fantasy; Humorous Stories; Imagination & Play; Juvenile Fiction; Pictorial works; Picture books: character books; Stories in rhyme
Terms of Sale
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Returns accepted for 15 days after receipt of book if book does not meet condition as stated in the description.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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