May 14, 2019 - Sale 2508

Sale 2508 - Lot 55

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) SEUSS, DR. (Theodor Geisel.) How the Grinch Stole Christmas. 4to, original color pictorial laminated boards, rubbing to extremities with light exposure; pictorial dust jacket, shallow chips to spine panel tips, rear panel with abrasions to top half including pinhole, corners rubbed and nicked, several cellotape repairs to verso mending short closed tears; one leaf with 10mm closed tear to bottom blank margin. New York: Random House, (1957)

Additional Details

first edition, first printing in a first issue jacket with 14 titles by Seuss listed on rear flap (Grinch the last one listed) and the printed price 250/250 on the lower front flap. Younger & Hirsch 33.