Horton Hatches The Egg
by Dr. Seuss
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hamish Hamilton. Good in Fair dust jacket. (1942). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's signature. Rubbing to ends of spine. 1 1/2" split at head of front gutter. 1" x 1 1/2" chip at head of dust wrapper spine. 1/2" x 1/2" chip at head of rear panel of dust wrapper. 3/8" x 3/8" chip at tail of dust wrapper spine. A couple of 1/8" holes along dust wrapper spine. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; Unpaginated. 48 pages. Illustrated card boards. Blue, red and white colour illustrations. Page dimensions: 243mm x 180mm. Australian edition. ; 8vo .
Synopsis
Horton Hatches the Egg is a children's book by Dr. Seuss, first published in 1940. The book, along with Horton Hears a Who later provided the thrust of the plot for the Broadway musical Seussical. The character Horton appeared again in Horton Hears a Who!, published in 1954. Plot summary The book concerns an elephant named Horton, who is convinced by an irresponsible bird named Mayzie to sit on her egg while she takes a short "break", which proves to last for months.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7964
- Title
- Horton Hatches The Egg
- Author
- Dr. Seuss
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1942)
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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....