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If I Ran the Circus
by Dr Seuss
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 039480080X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394800806
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Random House, USA, 1984. Book Club Edition (later reprint). Hardcover (Printed Boards). Fine. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Size: 28cm x 21cm. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Random House, USA, 1984. Book Club Edition (later reprint). *** CONDITION: This book is in fine condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Young Morris McGurk's has a BIG imagination. He wants to turn the vacant lot behind Sneelock's Store into the Circus McGurkus—the most colossal, stupendous, tremendous show in the world! Here you'll be entertained by bizarre creatures like the Drum-Tummied Snum, the Juggling Jott, and the Harp-Twanging Snarp, and fantastic circus acts performed by Sneelock—a sleepy shop keeper whom Morris images as the daredevil star of his big top! This is Dr. Seuss at his best, celebrating youthful imagination and creating a fantasy world that will delight and transport readers of all ages. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children & Young Adult; Children's Picture Books; ISBN: 039480080X. ISBN/EAN: 9780394800806. Inventory No: 23030028.. 9780394800806
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
- Seller
- Manyhills Books
(AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 23030028
- Title
- If I Ran the Circus
- Author
- Dr Seuss
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Printed Boards)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition (later reprint)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 039480080X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394800806
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Children & Young Adult; If I Ran the Circus
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children & Young Adult;
Terms of Sale
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Traralgon, Victoria
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- Book Club Edition
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- Fine
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