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Sale 419: Seuss - and Fine Literature (#419) 01/07/2010 1:00 PM PST Closed
Starts Ending 01/07/2010 1:00 PM PST

Lot #54 The King's Stilts

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$1,375

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,000

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Description

Title:

The King's Stilts

Author:

Seuss, Dr.

Place Published:

New York

Publisher:

Random House

Date Published:

[1939]

Description:

11½x8¾, all-yellow cloth, title lettered in red on front cover, dust jacket. Later Edition.

Lovely little ink drawing by Dr. Seuss accompanies an inscription on the lower corner of verso of the front free endpaper. It reads; "For Daisie Ford Wright with Best Wishes from Dr. Seuss." A charming fuzzy character walks next to the neat little inscription. In a later dust jacket with a price of $2.50. Difficult to find any edition of this volume signed by Dr. Seuss. Younger & Hirsch 47.

Condition:

Jacket spine with a few tiny holes and chipped at tips; volume spine tips rubbed; red ink non-authorial gift inscription on top corner of verso of front free endpaper; else a near fine volume in a very good jacket.

Item#:

205949

Headline:

King's Stilts later ptg signed w/drawing by Seuss
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