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GREEN EGGS AND HAM
by Seuss, Dr
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very good plus in very good plus jacket.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1960. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. First edition of this spellbinding read-aloud masterpiece, in second-state dust jacket. Seuss's knockout success with limited-vocabulary stories for beginning readers, especially CAT IN THE HAT, led his publisher Bennett Cerf to offer a wager: 50 dollars that Seuss couldn't create a children's book using only 50 words. Composing GREEN EGGS AND HAM was a trial that went far beyond Cerf's fifty-dollar bet. According to biographer Brian Jay Jones, Seuss "would rise to meet Cerf's challenge - and it was probably not entirely a coincidence that the central plot point of the resulting book was all about convincing someone to do something he didn't really want to do." The outcome was the best-selling Dr. Seuss book of all time. 9'' x 6.25''. Original orange glazed pictorial boards. In original unclipped (195/195) color pictorial dust jacket. "50 Word Vocabulary" printed on jacket, not a sticker. Color pictorial endpapers, and illustrated in color throughout. 62 pages. A couple bumps to boards, one faintly affecting text at upper corner. Jacket with a closed tear to rear panel and some light wear to spine ends: shows very well.
Synopsis
Green Eggs and Ham is a best-selling and critically acclaimed book by Dr. Seuss, first published in 1960. As of 2001, according to Publishers Weekly, it was the fourth-bestselling English-language children's book (novel) of all time.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44576
- Title
- GREEN EGGS AND HAM
- Author
- Seuss, Dr
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good plus in very good plus jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- 20th century,American,Picture Book
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About the Seller
Type Punch Matrix
Biblio member since 2020
Silver Spring, Maryland
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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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
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