THE LORAX
First edition, library issue, of Dr. Seuss's great anti-industrial rhyming tirade, teaching the early reader to know fear in a handful of dust.
Very good.
Price: $250.00
THE LORAX
"UNLESS someone like you<br />cares a whole awful lot,<br />nothing is going to get better.<br />It's not."
THE LORAX etched dire environmental anxiety into the very souls of all children of the 1970s and after, fortunate or unfortunate enough to hear and understand this impassioned parable. All great children's books have something to offer the adult reader, above or behind what is visible to the intended audience, but THE LORAX is perhaps the most squarely adult of all Seuss's multileveled works, designed to hurt most those who understand irony the best: "I laughed at the Lorax, 'You poor stupid guy! You never can tell what some people will buy." Amidst the urgent anger, Seuss sets a rather cruel picture of an idyllic lost golden age — "when the grass was still green / and the pond was still wet / and the clouds were still clean" — to tantalize those born too late to see a Truffala Tree with their own eyes. But it's never too late or too early to devastate the young with a vision of lost earthly delight they'll never recapture their whole lives long.
Removed from one California school district's reading list in the late '80s for wounding the tender feelings of logging profiteers, one outraged businessman declared, "To teach this book is insensitive to us as pillars of the community." It certainly is. A classic for a reason.
Read more: John Glionna, "Community at Loggerheads Over a Book by Dr. Seuss," LA Times, 1989.
The Object
First library edition. New York: Random House, (1971). 11'' x 8''. Original pictorial boards. Library edition, published simultaneously with the first trade edition. With original "Lake Erie" line, removed in later editions. Light rubbing to boards; corners and spine ends bumped and chipped. Interior clean and bright.
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