First edition, first printing of this classic bedtime book, a sleepy silly Seuss title.
Very good plus in very good dust jacket.
Price: $350.00
"The number / Of sleepers / Is steadily growing. / Bed is where / More and more people are going."
Dr. Seuss's silly and imaginative stories have been bedtime staples for generations. With his SLEEP BOOK, he outdoes himself in the genre, managing to make the sometimes-futile entreaties for sleep entertaining.
Read more: Younger, Younger, First Editions of Dr. Seuss Books: A Guide to Identification, item 20.
First edition. New York: Random House, (1962). 11'' x 8''. Origan color pictorial boards. Original unclipped (295/295) color pictorial dust jacket. Color pictorial endpapers of a creature reading in bed. Illustrated in color. [28] leaves. Ownership inscription to front pastedown, dated December 25, 1962. Jacket with light edgewear and one tiny closed tear, a couple tiny scuffs; small areas of tape residue to margins. Binding with a bit of shelfwear, some spots of toning to upper margins; toning to glue on turn-ins. Colors vibrant.
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