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THE 500 HATS OF BARTHOLOMEW CUBBINS
by Seuss, Dr
- Used
- Signed
- Condition
- Near fine in very good jacket.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Vanguard, 1938. Near fine in very good jacket.. Signed early printing of Seuss's second book. In this fairy tale a little boy finds himself in trouble with a king when he is unable to remove his hat, growing another as each is displaced. The story was inspired in part by a train ride in which Seuss became annoyed with a neighboring rider's hat - which he then began to daydream about removing by force. The proliferation of hats, however, was more directly influenced by Seuss's own collecting: he had almost 100 different hats, including "fire hats, a feathered admiral's cap, and a particularly ornate Czech army helmet" (Jones). This copy comes directly from the stock of Aleph-Bet Books, the firm of Seuss bibliographers Helen Younger and Marc Younger. 12'' x 9''. Original cloth backed pictorial boards. In original price-clipped dust jacket. Revised endpapers. Mulberry Street priced at $1.00 on jacket flap. Signed by Seuss on verso of front free endpaper. Slight soil in gutters, else fine, with absolutely no rubbing of the boards. Jacket slightly chipped.
Synopsis
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins is a children's book, written by Dr. Seuss and published in 1938. Unlike the majority of Dr. Seuss's books, it is written in prose rather than rhyming and metered verse. The characters of Bartholomew and King Derwin appear again in a later book, Bartholomew and the Oobleck. Set in feudal times, the story begins in the Kingdom of Didd, when King Derwin is riding through a street past Bartholomew Cubbins, a poor boy in the market.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34279
- Title
- THE 500 HATS OF BARTHOLOMEW CUBBINS
- Author
- Seuss, Dr
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in very good jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Vanguard
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- 20th century,American,Picture Book
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Glossary
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
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- Fine
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