If I Ran the Circus
by Dr. Seuss
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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Lynchburg, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Random House, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. First Printing (Younger, 108-109). Pictorial boards. Bumped and rubbed at edges. Ink gift note on front pastedown endpaper, few smudges to pages, else interior clean and secure. Jacket is rubbed and worn, edges have tears are creases and some loss, verso foxed, price-clipped. Your purchase benefits literacy and summer reading programs in Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio. We ship every business day. All books ship in cardboard bookfolds with delivery confirmation. Sets or unusually heavy items ship in a box.
Synopsis
If I Ran the Circus is a children's book by Dr. Seuss, published in 1956 by Random House. Although it is perhaps not the best known of Seuss's books, its title is often used in North American English as a saying for introducing an opinion. Like The Cat in the Hat, or the more political Yertle the Turtle, If I Ran the Circus develops a theme of cumulative fantasy leading to excess. The overt social commentary found in the Sneetches and the Zax demonstrates that Dr.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Queen City Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 050755
- Title
- If I Ran the Circus
- Author
- Dr. Seuss
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Date Published
- 1956
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Verso
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...