One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss

Readily marbled (“tree calf”), mottled, diced, colored, polished, tooled in gilt or blind, even scented (known as “russia”). Calf Binding material made from cowhide-versatile, durable, usually tan or brown in color, of smooth texture with no or little apparent grain.Broadside Sheet printed on one side, typically for public display, usually larger than folio size (a folio being a broadside-size sheet printed on both sides and folded once, to make four pages).Book-Plate Label, generally affixed to the front pastedown, identifying a book’s owner.Of particular value to collectors as evidence of a very early form of the book. “Original boards” refers to cardboard-like front and back boards, from about 1700 to 1840, used as temporary protection for books before their purchasers would have them bound. Boards Hard front and rear covers of a bound book which are covered in cloth, leather or paper.Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book.

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Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes.

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Interior fresh with tiny bit of edge-wear to boards light edge-wear, minimal tape reinforcement to verso of dust jacket.

First-issue dust jacket: with no listing of later titles and correct Random House address. 'A collection of daffy verses about the daffiest of subjects and situations, done in the inimitable Seuss manner, complete with hypnotic rhymes, jokes, a picture-menagerie of Seuss-type animals that never were on land or sea… The great thing about the Seuss books is that they never seem educational, just high-voltage fun to read, to look at and to listen to' ( New York Times, emphasis in original).

Seuss’ most beloved Beginner Books, in colorful first-issue dust jacket. Small quarto, original laminated pictorial paper boards, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket.įirst edition of one of Dr. 'FROM THERE TO HERE, FROM HERE TO THERE, FUNNY THINGS ARE EVERYWHERE'

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss