Sixty-one numbered pages with full color illustrations on every page by Dr. the price of 200/200 on the front flap of the wrapper with some minor wear to edges and rubbing to folds but with no loss. Full color pictorial dust wrapper with the correct first issue point, i.e. Full color pictorial flat paper (not glazed or shiny paper) over boards with minor rubbing to the corners and spine extremities and a tiny area of abrasion consisting of approximately six minute spots, 1/16' in length each, along the bottom of the inside of the front cover to the paper covering the board. Signed by Author(s).įlat Paper Over Boards. Includes a custom clamshell slipcase for preservation and presentation. Overall, a magnificent copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION in collector's condition. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book.

The binding is tight, with slight wear to the boards. This beautiful ORIGINAL dustjacket is vibrant in color with slight wear to the spine and edges. Seuss and a brief biography of the author with no mention of the 'Beginner Books' series found on later printings. There is NO number on the spine of the dustjacket and the rear flap has the picture of Dr. This First Issue dustjacket has the words 'For Beginning Readers' printed on the the front panel within a black circle.

First Edition, First Printing with the 200/200 printed price located on the front top flap of the dustjacket. It was the basis for the 2003 film starring Mike Myers in the title role of the Cat in the Hat, and Dakota Fanning as Sally. 'This extraordinary writer has done more to foster literacy in children than most because he manages to combine lunacy with sanity, fun with learning, and quality with exuberant readability' (Joseph Connolly). Seuss books since 1937, created a special division, Beginner Books, with the Cat in the Hat as the logo and Dr. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained and delighted.' 'The Cat in the Hat was so successful that Random House, publisher of all the Dr.

'A person's a person, no matter how small,' Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Book contains a single signature and 61 pages with a message on final page before end paper contained in an outline of the cat's hat & head. All issue points present: price of 200/200 on the dust jacket, no mention of the 'Beginner Books' series on the rear panel, and has four paragraphs of educator's reviews on rear panel. Seuss.' Fine in an excellent dust jacket with light wear. Octavo, original illustrated unlaminated boards.

Cat and the hat book