AND TO THINK THAT I SAW IT ON MULBERRY STREET

Dr. Seuss's First Children's Book

AND TO THINK THAT I SAW IT ON MULBERRY STREET

Written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss

1937

First edition, first printing of Dr. Seuss's first children's book, the increasingly-fantastic tale of the fantastic things young Marco saw on his way home from school.

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Price: $500.00

AND TO THINK THAT I SAW IT ON MULBERRY STREET

"Say! That makes a story that NO ONE can beat, / When I say that I saw it on Mulberry Street."

AND TO THINK THAT I SAW IT ON MULBERRY STREET was the first children's book in what would become a legendary career. "Here Seuss begins techniques which he uses" in almost all of his future works, observes Thomas Fensch: "the rhyme gallops [...] every page – text and pictures – contributes to a bigger – and better – next page" (68). Marco's imagined parade contains a few racially-stereotyped groups and individuals, which recently prompted Dr. Seuss Enterprises to let the title go out of print. Nevertheless, an auspicious debut.

Read more: Thomas Fensch, The Man Who Was Dr. Seuss; Younger, Younger, First Editions of Dr. Seuss Books: A Guide to Identification, item 1.

The Object

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1937. 10.5'' x 8.25''. Original color pictorial boards. Pictorial endpapers of Marco on Mulberry Street. Illustrated in color. [16] leaves. Binding with edgewear and light scuffing, a few spots of soil. Lacking spine covering. Front endpapers with small erased pencil writing, leaves with a few tiny spots of soil to margins; one or two shallow corner creases. Shaken, but overall sound.

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