Apr 10, 2025 - Sale 2699

Sale 2699 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
GEISEL, THEODORE ("DR. SEUSS"). Group of 6 items, each Inscribed and Signed, "Dr. Seuss," to Chuck Meeks: Brief Autograph Letter * Group of 5 books. The letter: "I'll be very happy to autograph your books. Just mail them along with an addressed and stamped book-mailer." Additionally Signed, "T.S. Geisel." 1 page, 8vo, personal stationery showing the Cat in the Hat printed along left edge in red and black ink; horizontal folds. With the original envelope, addressed in holograph. The books, "With Best Wishes / to / Chuck Meeks!," on page facing title-page or front pastedown: Boners * More Boners * Green Eggs and Ham * Dr. Seuss's ABC * Oh Say Can You Say? Small 8vo or small 4to, moderately worn, scattered soiling; most with owner inscriptions including one on same page as signature; lacking dust jackets. Later editions. New York: Viking, 1931; 1931; Random House, 1960; 1963; 1979; inscriptions: San Diego, 7 December 1983 [from postmark]

Additional Details

With--(Theodore Geisel.) Typed letter from Hope Koturo, editor for Random House Books for Young Readers, to C.M. Meeks, promising to forward his letter to Dr. Seuss. ½ page, 8vo, "Random House" stationery. New York, 22 July 1983.