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The Cat in the Hat
by Dr. Seuss
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-/Good+
- Seller
-
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Beginner Books/Random House, 1957. An early printing (3rd) with B-1 on the spine and dust cover with 195/195 price marked in front flap corner. Hardcover, matte boards. Overall condition is Good+. Damage to dust jacket, pieces missing. Dust jacket protected by brodart cover. Wear on spine and edges of boards, bumped corners. Pages are in very good condition, unmarked and bright colors. Beautifully illustrated endpapers. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
Synopsis
The Cat in the Hat is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and first published in 1957. The story centers on a tall anthropomorphic cat who wears a red and white-striped hat and a red bow tie. The Cat shows up at the house of Sally and her brother on a rainy day while they are home alone. Despite the repeated objections of the children's fish, the Cat shows the children a few of his tricks in an attempt to entertain them. In the process, he and his companions, Thing One and Thing Two, wreck the house. The children and the fish become more and more alarmed until the Cat produces a machine that he uses to clean everything up and disappears just before the children's mother comes home. The Cat and the Hat inaugerated the Beginner Books Series, promoting both the Dr. Seuss name and the cause of elementary literacy in the United States.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Babcock & 68th
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 163
- Title
- The Cat in the Hat
- Author
- Dr. Seuss
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition, 3rd printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Beginner Books
- Date Published
- 1957
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Collectibles; Build Your Library - Looks Cool on the Shelf;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Babcock & 68th
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St. Paul, Minnesota
About Babcock & 68th
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Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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