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The Cat in the Hat

by Dr. Seuss

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New York: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1957. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover in dust jacket. First issue of first printing of first edition. Book is crisp, clean and solidly bound in matte pictorial boards, illustrated endpapers bright and clean. Light wear along bottom edges and corners. Former owner's name on blank side of front free endpage (not on the side that depicts the Cat in the Hat) . Pages, bound in a single section, are bright and fresh. Protected, price clipped, dust jacket, crease down the front. The rear flap is missing the top half, with a faded former owner at top, above "cat. " Otherwise the jacket is clean and intact, with the proper points. 61 numbered pages plus one page of editorial matter fitted into the outline of a cat in a hat. A handsome copy of a landmark book. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

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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Bookseller
KULTURAs books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
79586
Title
The Cat in the Hat
Author
Dr. Seuss
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Edition
First Edition; First Printing
Publisher
Random House
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1957
Keywords
For Beginning Readers; Beginner Books, the cat in the hat 1st edition with , dustjacket 1957,

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Jacket
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Crisp
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Edges
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First Edition
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