If I Ran the Circus.

£550 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

First edition, first printing of this ever-popular Dr Seuss title, scarce in its dust-jacket: the background of the cover and jacket is pink rather than the red of subsequent printings. First edition, first printing; small folio (285 x 200 mm); colour illustrations and endpapers by Dr Seuss, ownership stamps on front endpapers; publisher's glossy pictorial boards, a little rubbed at extremities, dust-jacket, slightly rubbed, small repair to head of spine. Younger Hirsch 43.

• Binding: Hardcover

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