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The Cat In The Hat
by Seuss, Dr
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Northport, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: Random House (1957). First edition with all first edition points present, Younger & Hirsch, with price-clipped dust jacket; small 4to.; flat illustrated boards (not glossy), hardcover; boards are sunned and edgeworn especially at spine ends and corners else a very good clean tight copy and in a price-clipped, foxed, sunned and edgeworn dust jacket.
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
- WellRead Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41611
- Title
- The Cat In The Hat
- Author
- Seuss, Dr
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- NY: Random House (1957)
- Keywords
- Children, Seuss, Beginner Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children;
Terms of Sale
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New York State orders must include appropriate sales tax. Books are returnable within ten days
About the Seller
WellRead Books
Biblio member since 2005
Northport, New York
About WellRead Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
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