Collecting Childrens Picturebooks: The Cat In The Hat Comes Back (1958)

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The Cat In The Hat Comes Back (1958)

Dr. Seuss First Edition Identification

The Cat In The Hat Comes Back, written & illustrated by Theodor Seuss Geisel
Random House, 1958

Children's Picturebook Price Guide Value:  $300 VG+ 

Essential identifying point
Copyright page:  Line with “FIRST PRINTING”

Essential Identifying Point
Book and DJ front cover:  Snowball at bottom left by Cat’s tail.

 

The ‘snowball’ point is of assistance if a later edition dust jacket is placed onto a first state book—the first state book and dust jacket match and are the only printings with the ‘snowball’.

The book is easy enough to identify, being a stated edition.  In the Children’s Picturebook Price Guide we categorize this type of Seuss book as “Group A:  Stated First Printing”.  Other Seuss books in the group include Lady Godiva and Horton Hatches The Egg.

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