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Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book, 1962
Childrens Picturebook Price Guide: $200 VG+
Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book was the 17th large-format children’s book written and illustrated by Theodor Seuss Geisel, and twenty-first overall. The first edition continues to show up on eBay for modest prices a couple of times per month.
In addition to being an author/illustrator, at this time in his career Seuss was also the President of Beginner Books. We love the letter from the eight year old on the back dust jacket flap:
“Dear. Dr. Seuss,
You sure thunk up a lot of funny books. You sure thunk up a millian funny animels. Now this I want to know. Who thunk YOU up Dr. Seuss?”
First Edition Identification:
Back dust jacket with two boxes of Dr. Seuss books. Top box with sixteen large-format books, listed in two columns. The left column begins with Yertle and ends with 500 Hats; right column begins with Oobleck and ends with Mulberry Street. The lower box lists the four small-format Beginner Books, beginning with Cat In The Hat and ending with Green Eggs And Ham. No listing for Sleep Book on back dust jacket.
The front flap price is ‘295/295’, however is not necessary to identify a first edition.
is,there anyway of identifying the edition of Sleep Book by Dr. Seuss without the dust cover
Unfortunately not – the dust jacket is required to identify the true first edition book. I have examined over 20 copies of the first edition in dust jacket, and haven’t seen a differentiator for the first edition book versus a later 1960’s printing.