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(CHILDREN’S LITERATURE.) Seuss, Dr.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
8vo, publisher’s glazed paper boards, board edges and corners rubbed, spine ends slightly
chipped; dust jacket with “250/250” price, chipping particularly significant at spine ends
and at bottom edge of front panel; a few tears with cellotape mending on verso, scattered
creasing.
FIRST EDITION IN FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET
.Younger and Hirsch, p. 91-93.
NewYork: Random House, (1957)
[600/900]
WITH
—
Seuss. Green Eggs and Ham. 8vo, publisher’s pictorial boards, light rubbing to spine
tips; dust jacket, few creases, two cellotape repairs on verso; small ownership signature on front
free endpaper; discreet school label on front pastedown. First edition, later impression.Younger
and Hirsch, p. 75-77. NY, (1960).
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(CHILDREN’S LITERATURE.) Wain, Louis and Pope, Jessie.
The Cat Scouts.
Color illustrations by Wain. 4to, cloth backed green boards, pictorial label on front cover,
board extremities rubbed, scattered soiling to covers, some shelfwear to label; hinges start-
ing, few marginal tears, two small abrasions on title-page, some finger-soiling and minor
foxing to pages as usual.
FIRST EDITION
in good condition for this notoriously fragile book.
A charming survival.
London: Blackie and Son Limited, [1912]
[400/600]
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(CHILDREN’S LITERATURE.) Zelinsky, Paul O.
The Maid and the Mouse
and the Open-Shaped House.
Color illustrations throughout by Zelinsky.Tall 4to, pic-
torial lavender cloth; dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION
.
INSCRIBED AND SIGNED TO FELLOW
CHILDREN
’
S BOOK AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR IRENE HAAS
,
WITH A DRAWING OF THE MAID
AND THE MOUSE
on half-title.
NewYork: Dodd, Mead, (1981)
[200/300]
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CHOPIN, KATE.
A Night in Acadie.
Frontispiece illustration by Eric Pape. 8vo,
publisher’s blue cloth covers pictorially stamped with a bayou scene in silver and green,
some rubbing to extremities, slight fraying at head of spine, corners bumped; top edges
trimmed and gilt; internally clean but for a few minor smudges to last few leaves.
FIRST
EDITION OF CHOPIN
’
S SECOND WORK
and, like her first, a collection of short stories. BAL
3245.
Chicago:Way &Williams, 1897
[400/600]
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CHRISTIE, AGATHA.
Murder
in Mesopotamia.
8vo, original orange
cloth, spine very lightly faded; dust jacket,
some rubbing and creasing along folds,
areas of professional restoration to spine
ends and corners, larger restorations along
bottoms of front and rear panels,
unclipped; some discoloration on endpa-
pers from old binding glue as usual;
housed in custom drop-back case.
London: Collins, for the Crime Club,
(1936)
[3,000/4,000]
FIRST EDITION
.
The evocative jacket design is
by Robin Macartney, who participated in
archaeological expeditions with the author and
her husband Max Mallowan.
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