SEUSS, Dr.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
New York: Random House , 1957.
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329-30)."
First edition, first printing with all issue points: Cat in the Hat on back cover of book with 14 titles (up to now) listed on the rear flap and a list of 13 books printed at the end of the book. Dust jacket price reads 250/250. Illustrated in black and red. Original illustrated glossy paper boards. Pictorial endpapers. Inscribed by Seuss at the lower left of the front free end page, "Merry Christmas to the Rogers family with Best Wishes Dr. Seuss". Near fine with light rubbing to the boards as usual in a bright near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom quarter morocco clamshell box.
"Clearly the Grinch has been the most memorable Christmas villain to undergo redemption since Ebenezer Scrooge. To some degree, Ted identified with the Grinch When asked why he wrote the book, Dr. Seuss replied, ‘I was brushing my teeth on the morning of the 26th of last December when I noted a very Grinch-ish countenance in the mirror. It was Seuss! So I wrote the story about my sour friend, the Grinch, to see if I could rediscover something about Christmas that obviously I’d lost.’ It was no coincidence that, when the book appeared in 1957, the Grinch complained, ‘For fifty-three years I’ve put up with it now’ Ted, of course, was born in 1904 After The Cat in the Hat and The Grinch, Ted’s reputation grew exponentially" (Cohen, 329-30).
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
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