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SEUSS, Dr. [pseudonym of GEISEL, Theodore Seuss]. If I Ran ...

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SEUSS, Dr. [pseudonym of GEISEL, Theodore Seuss]. If I Ran the Zoo. New York: Random House, [1950]. Large 4to. Illustrated. Publisher?s glossy pictorial boards, publisher?s unclipped (?200/200?) dust jacket (light rubbing, bumping to binding, pencil ownership signature on ffep.; jacket spine sunned and chipped, jacket worn with several marginal chips, tears, some dampstaining at jacket spine). Very good. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THIS RARE BOOK IN JACKET. Originally purchased from the Youngers at Aleph-Bet Books, who co-wrote the Seuss Bibliography. Measurements: 14 x 12 x ??.