Search Results: and to think that i saw it on mulberry street by seuss

Vanguard Press, 1937. first. hardcover. very good/very good. First edition, first issue with white shorts on boy. Comes with laid-in postcard signed by Seuss and certificate of authenticity from Cover Scape Cachets. Book very good, previous owner's name and date on front paste-down, some discoloring on front and rear end papers, some rubbing at corners and edges. Dust jacket very good, with some wear and tears. Housed in custom-made foldout case.

New York: The Vanguard Press,, 1937. The first Dr Seuss book for children First edition, first issue, with the copyright information reading "Duenewald Printing Corporation" and the first state jacket with the boy's trousers in white. "Even in [his] early books Dr. Seuss shows his intuitive grasp of the expectations of the child reader and the possibilities, as well as the limitations, of the picture book story and illustration" (MacDonald, p. 17). "No one was willing to experiment with a book without precedent in the children's book market at the time. An old college friend who had just been appointed children's editor at Vanguard met Geisel in the street in New York and asked him what he had been doing; a glance at the manuscript resulted in a visit to Vanguard's offices and a signed contract for the book within an hour" (MacDonald, p. 7). Though it would take another two decades for Seuss to become a best-seller, And to Think that I Saw It on Mulberry Street found much immediate appreciation, with… Read More

Vanguard Press, 1937. Hard cover. Fair/No jacket. 10th printing. Inscribed by Dr. Seuss facing the title page. Covers worn and spine missing. Interior well read.