Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) | First Editions
1904 - 1991
Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was an American writer and illustrator best known for authoring popular children's books under the pen name Dr. Seuss. His work includes several of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death. The pen name 'Dr. Seuss' was adopted during his university studies at the University of Oxford, which Geisel left in 1927 to begin his career as an illustrator and cartoonist. In this period, he illustrated for Vanity Fair and Life. He also worked as an illustrator for advertising campaigns, most notably for Flit and Standard Oil, and as a political cartoonist for the New York newspaper PM.
After WWII, Geisel focused on children's books, writing classics such as If I Ran the Zoo (1950), Horton Hears a Who! (1955), If I Ran the Circus (1956), The Cat in the Hat (1957), How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957), and Green Eggs and Ham (1960). He published over 60 books during his career, which have spawned numerous adaptations, including 11 television specials, four feature films, a Broadway musical, and four television series. He won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958 for Horton Hatches the Egg and again in 1961 for And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. Geisel's birthday, March 2, has been adopted as the annual date for National Read Across America Day, an initiative on reading created by the National Education Association.
See below our stock of Dr. Seuss First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
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Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories. Including: Gertrude McFuzz and The Big Brag.
New York: Random House. 1958. First Edition; slim Quarto. Publisher's green and blue illustrated boards, with matching dust jacket. Titles in black and white to upper board and spine. Beautifully illustrated throughout by the author, including endpapers. Binding a little rubbed to extremities. Dust jacket showing light rubbing, frayed to..... More
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back.
New York: Beginner Books, Random House, 1958. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.63. Publisher's glossy pictorial boards, with the matching dust-jacket, not priced. Minor edge soiling, owner's name discreetly hidden under flap. Jacket has small loss to the tail of spine, is rubbed and lightly creased..... More
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back.
New York: Beginner Books, 1958. [Children's Illustrated Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[1]; 61; [2]. Publisher's glossy pictorial boards with the dust-jacket of matching design. Coloured illustrations throughout, pictorial endpapers. Previous owner's neat note to flyleaf in black ink, bumping to spine and corners, some sunning and creasing..... More
The Cat in the Hat.
New York, NY: Random House, 1957. [Children's reading book] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with all points present. Quarto (23 x 17cm), pp.62. Illustrated throughout. Bound in publisher's pictorial blue boards, in illustrated dust-jacket repeating the cover design. Some wear to extremities, corners lightly bumped, very light discolouration to front board..... More
The Cat in the Hat.
New York, NY: Random House, 1957. [Children's reading book] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with all points present. Quarto (23 x 17cm), pp.62. Illustrated throughout. Bound in publisher's pictorial blue boards, in illustrated dust-jacket repeating the cover design. Contents clean, page edges toned, jacket is edgeworn, one-inch chip to foot of..... More
The Cat in the Hat.
London: HarperCollinsChildren's Books, 1997. [Children's Illustrated] ANNIVERSARY EDITION. Small quarto (29 x 21cm), pp.[2] 61 [1]. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's dark grey quarter cloth, with silver titles to spine, red cloth over boards, and light blue endpapers. With the light blue illustrated dust-jacket. Minor handling; jacket price-clipped. Near fine..... More
The Cat in the Hat.
London: Collins and Harvill, [circa 1970s]. [Children's Illustrated] VINTAGE UK COPY, a later issue following the merger of William Collins and the Harvill Press. Small quarto (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] 61 [1]. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy illustrated paper-covered boards, not priced. Blue and red illustrated endpapers. Moderate bumping..... More
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