The Seven Lady Godivas

New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition, first printing. Written and Illustrated by Dr. Seuss. 1 vols. 4to. Orginal cloth. Fine copy in soiled and worn pictorial dust jacketunclipped. Seuss, Dr. First Edition, first printing. Written and Illustrated by Dr. Seuss. 1 vols. 4to. Dr. Seuss’s third book, preceded by his highly successful juveniles, To Think that I Saw iIt on Mulberry Street and The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins. As the publisher’s blurb on the inside front jacket has it, “we hope that it is unnecessary to point out to you that The Seven Lady Godivas belongs in a very different category”; or, one of the Horse Truths (Gussie Godiva’s)revealed (truncated) in the course of this hilarious book points out, it is “a horse of a different color. (Inventory #: 332617)