May 15, 2018 - Sale 2478

Sale 2478 - Lot 77

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) SEUSS, DR. (Theodor Geisel). How the Grinch Stole Christmas. 4to, original color pictorial laminated boards, minimal rubbing to extremities; pictorial dust jacket, moderate dust-soiling, rubbing to folds and corners and tips of spine panel, creasing, few short closed tears; a few light smudges, otherwise contents clean. New York: Random House, (1957)

Additional Details

first edition, presentation copy, singed and inscribed: "For Debbie and Scotty / Dr. Seuss." 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.