Posted by Dr. Seuss First Edition Identification
If I Ran The Circus; written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss; Random House; 1956
Children’s Picturebook Price Guide Value – $1400 VG+
Essential Identifying Point
Pink boards with matching pink dust jacket is unique to first printing. Later printings have familiar red/yellow boards and dust jacket.
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In the Children’s Picturebook Price Guide, I place this book into Seuss Group B:
Dr Seuss First Edition Books
The conventional wisdom among booksellers is first edition Dr. Seuss books cannot be identified without the dust jacket. This used to be true. With the recent discovery of some salient information, today, most of the large format Dr. Seuss…