500 HATS OF BARTHOLOMEW CUBBINS
by SEUSS,DR
Price: $7,850.00
- Bookseller: Aleph-Bet Books, Inc.
- Seller Inventory #: 18653
- Book condition: 1
- Illustrator: SEUSS
- Binding: Hardcover
- Date published: 1938
Book Description
1938. 1. SEUSS,DR. THE 500 HATS OF BARTHOLOMEW CUBBINS. NY: Vanguard (1938). Large 4to (9 X 12"), cloth backed pictorial boards, Fine in dust wrapper with correct $1.50 price (dw is frayed at spine ends and has a few closed tears otherwise this is a beautiful example of the dw for this book). 1st ed. of Dr. Seuss's second book with correct endpaper configuration. Illustrated throughout in black and white with Bartholomew's red hat being the only color (besides the red pictorial endpapers). Bader (p. 304) calls it "folkloric fantasy of a spoofing sort with a happy open end." One of the rarest Seuss first editions in excellent condition. See Younger/Hirsch 22.
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