Item #131833 Horton hatches the Egg. SEUSS Dr, Theodor GEISEL.
Horton hatches the Egg
Horton hatches the Egg
Horton hatches the Egg

Horton hatches the Egg

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1942 (first Australian edition)/ 1940.

Quarto, [47] pages with numerous illustrations (many of them double-page) printed in red, blue and black.

Flush-cut quarter cloth and colour-pictorial papered boards slightly rubbed at the extremities; top corners slightly bumped; rear board slightly marked; front hinge partially split but firm; contemporary juvenile ownership signature in pencil on the front flyleaf (with the number '57' added in ink); minimal signs of age and use; an excellent copy.

The first Australian edition, 'Printed by Morris & Walker, Melbourne, for George Jaboor ... Australasian Representative of Hamish Hamilton Ltd., London'. The first edition was published by Random House in New York in 1940; the first UK edition was published by Hamish Hamilton in London in 1941.

Item #131833

Price (AUD): $400.00

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