If I Ran the Circus.
by SEUSS, Dr. [pseud. GEISEL, Theodor Seuss]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York, Random House, 1956. . First edition, first printing; small folio (285 x 200 mm.); colour illustrations and endpapers by Dr Seuss, ownership stamps on front endpapers; publisher's glossy pictorial boards, a little rubbed at extremities, dust-jacket, slightly rubbed, small repair to head of spine.
First edition, first printing of this ever-popular Dr Seuss title, scarce in its dust-jacket: the background of the cover and jacket is pink rather than the red of subsequent printings.
Younger & Hirsch 43.
First edition, first printing of this ever-popular Dr Seuss title, scarce in its dust-jacket: the background of the cover and jacket is pink rather than the red of subsequent printings.
Younger & Hirsch 43.
Synopsis
If I Ran the Circus is a children's book by Dr. Seuss, published in 1956 by Random House. Although it is perhaps not the best known of Seuss's books, its title is often used in North American English as a saying for introducing an opinion. Like The Cat in the Hat, or the more political Yertle the Turtle, If I Ran the Circus develops a theme of cumulative fantasy leading to excess. The overt social commentary found in the Sneetches and the Zax demonstrates that Dr.
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- Bookseller
- Shapero Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 102341
- Title
- If I Ran the Circus.
- Author
- SEUSS, Dr. [pseud. GEISEL, Theodor Seuss]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York, Random House, 1956.
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