Mcelligots Pool by Seuss Geisel (21 results)

Condition: very_good. Cover may have light wear, pages in very good condition and binding is sturdy; may have other light shelf wear or creases. May have notes or highlighting.

Unknown Binding. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Book Club Edition (BCE). Orig. published in 1947, this is a later printing (c. 1960s) & a Book Club Edition (c. 1959) of that First Edition, with Rudolf Flesch review on back cover. With brightly colored, illustrated matte paper over boards, this oversized hardcover is in just Fair condition: though generally clean inside, former owner's name appears thrice in front matter, & the image on first page of text has been outlined in crayon. Some pages show dark spotting to fore edge side. Sewn binding is strong & straight, but with tearing at both ends of spine. Rubbing to all extremities & heavy bumping/paper loss at all corners/spine tips. No DJ. Our photos depict the EXACT book you will receive from us--never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Dr. Seuss (Geisel, Theodor) (illustrator).…

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by the author. A later printing. Near fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A Lovely Solid Copy Of This Collected Dr Seuss Stories. Beautifully Illustrated With Cherry Pink Eps Pale Green Hard Cover Boards With Sketches Of The Characters From The Stories. Mild Bumping To Tips And Spine Ends , Very Little Spine Darkening. A Heavy Book, May Require Extra Shipping Dependent On Destination . Please Ask.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. This is a complete copy of the first edition, first state, with olive green covers and dark green titles, seven line copyright notice, open mouth fish on cover. It is a well used copy with spine perished and held together with tape. Pages are loose and have finger soil. A well loved but complete story.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Christmas 1953 gift inscription to half-title page; otherwise no dates showing save for 1947 copyright. There's nothing wrong with the condition of this book (save some modest rub to board corners); we grade it "good-plus" simply because the binding is no longer tight enough to snap the text block shut. The "very good" jacket shows some rub to tops of folds, and a 1/4-inch closed tear to top right of front panel. Not price clipped; "250/250" price showing. Mouth closed on fish to jacket front panel, fish's mouth closed to (dark blue) front board, mouth open on endpapers. This is one of the five classic Dr. Seuss titles which the Politically Correct successors who control the Geisel/Dr. Seuss estate have announced they will no longer reprint, alleging that the author (1904-1991, whose publication of this book was delayed from 1941 to 1947 due to his wartime service in the U.S. armed forces) drew whimsical cartoon tales (40 to 90 years ago) which caricatured members of non-white races (especially the Japanese) in ways now judged demeaning. That is their right, of course. But see Iris Chang's "The Rape of Nanking" for documentation and photos of Japanese soldiers using Chinese civilians for bayonet practice, posing next to rows of heads chopped off Chinese civilians, raping Chinese women, turning hundreds (if not thousands) of conquered Korean women into unwilling whores in their officially authorized "comfort houses." Research their use of American, English, and Australian POWs for slave labor in Burma and elsewhere when not purposely starving them to death, torturing them, or cutting off their heads -- not to mention the Bataan Death March -- and then feel free to get back to us on how Americans who were not yet born should today hang our heads in shame over the fact that our grandparents -- fighting for their lives and for the freedom of the world from racist, militarist tyranny -- drew cartoons which failed to make the Japanese look sufficiently noble and upstanding. We don't suppose the Japanese at that time were drawing any demeaning cartoons which ridiculed the English and Americans? Meantime 1) How many of these facts are now taught to Japanese children, so they'll fully understand the relevant history? 2) How is anyone to learn any lessons from history, if that history is systematically erased by these sniveling Woketards? and 3) This book contains a very small cartoon of a "tropical" man fanning himself (he wears a hat and appears to have a mustache. Could he be meant to represent a "Mexican"? Oh, the horror!) Both he and a tiny "Tibetan" with a white beard look thoroughly Caucasian, as does the Eskimo. No offensively caricatured "people of color" No "Orientals." But if the shrunken and diminished heirs of an artist who sought only to amuse now want to cower at shadows and artificially create new rarities, we're happy to supply them to those who remain sane. Unpaginated but 50 pp., now reduced from $1,295. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. SEUSS, Dr. [pseud. of Theodor Seuss GEISEL] (1904-1991). McElligot's Pool. New York: Random House, 1947. First Edition, First Printing, first binding state (State A), with the open-mouthed fish on the front board and the seven-line copyright notice. Quarto (4to); unpaginated. Original blue-green cloth, lettered and pictorially decorated in dark green. Illustrated throughout by Dr. Seuss with alternating black-and-white and color illustrations. Housed in a later supplied, or married, Random House dust jacket, retaining the correct front-panel design but with the rear panel advertising titles published after 1947. One of Dr. Seuss's most imaginatively illustrated early books, following Marco as he envisions the extraordinary fish that might inhabit an apparently unpromising pool. The work received a 1948 Caldecott Honor and is notable for its expansive aquatic scenes and inventive creatures. Contents clean, unmarked, and retaining bright color illustrations, with minor scattered foxing and handling wear. Binding remains sound and square. Original cloth with moderate rubbing at the corners and spine ends and light wear along the extremities. Later married dust jacket with rubbing, chipping, edge tears, creasing, and old repairs; the rear panel confirms that it was issued after the book's original 1947 publication. An attractive first-state copy presented in a later jacket. Reference: Younger & Hirsch 53. [Attributes: First Edition; First Printing; Hard Cover; Illustrated.]. SEUSS, Dr. [pseudonym of Theodor Seuss GEISEL] (1904-1991). (illustrator).…

Large Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, early printing, in binding variant D with bright green cloth, close-mouthed fish, 4-line copyright notice (Younger & Hirsch 53d), 250/250 jacket price. Pages faintly toned, minor wear to board and jacket corners, 1/4 inch chip from rear jacket corner. 1947 Large Hardcover. 52 pp. In this colorful picture book, a boy named Marco goes fishing in a small pond called McElligot's Pool. As he sits waiting for a bite, a farmer calls him a fool and says "You'll never catch fish in McElligot's Pool!" Marco, however, refuses to be discouraged and spends the rest of the story describing all the fish that could be coming to McElligot's Pool from the ocean.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by the author. An early printing. Fraying at the spine ends, edge worn at the corners, else very good in green cloth covered boards with black lettering and fish illustration. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Book Club Edition. 4to; unpaged. Color illustration on boards, inside boards, fly leaves & throughout; b/w illustrations throughout. Fair; dog bite marks on top of book; wear on corners, edges & spine; staining on boards; all else clean, tight & attractive. Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. A very early reprint. Price on the flap is $2.95 ($2.50 on the true first), fish with closed mouth. Book is near fine, clean and bright. Jacket is a strong very good -- some where but still presenting as a very attractive copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good Minus. I believe this to be a very early printing: publisher's green cloth, with a closed-mouth fish on the cover and a three-line copyright statement with 1947 the only date stated. You can see the covers in the photos. They are pretty clean, a bit of light soiling. There's a shallow groove above the front bottom corner. There are a few penned jags on the rear cover. There's also a small loss on the rear side of the spine just off the bottom edge. There is a tear (perhaps mended/glued at some point) on the front side of the spine. There's also rub-through at both spine ends. There is rub-through at all four corners and there is rubbing at the edges. The black lettering on the front and spine is quite bright. The book is pretty square and it is solidly bound from cover to cover. I'm not seeing any cracks or spaces between any of the facing pages or between the covers and end papers. The front cover creaks a tiny bit when you open it wide. The inside covers and end papers form the same color illustration. The pages are in nice condition. They are quite clean. I saw only a few inconspicuous tiny spots. The illustrations are alternately in black & white and in color. They all appear to be in excellent condition. There is a tiny tip of the bottom corner crease on most of the pages. There isn't much else by way of creasing. There is a small tear at the top edge of the rear inside cover, above where the illustration begins. There are no markings in the book. There are no attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere in the book. The title is in red lettering on the title page. The author's name is in blue lettering on the title page. 'McElligot's Pool is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and published by Random House in 1947. In the story, a boy named Marco, who first appeared in Geisel's 1937 book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, imagines a wide variety of strange fish that could be swimming in the pond in which he is fishing. Geisel painted some of the water colors that illustrate McElligot's Pool while vacationing with his wife, Helen, at the summer home of their friend Kelvin Vanderlip, in southern California. The book was the first Dr. Seuss book to use watercolors for its illustrations; however, because of budget concerns, Random House published half of the book in black and white, alternating between two pages in color and two pages in black and white. McElligot's Pool, Geisel's first book in seven years, was published by Random House in 1947 and was well received. It became a Junior Literary Guild selection and garnered Geisel his first Caldecott Honor. The review in the Saturday Review of Literature stated, "Children will have nothing but admiration for this boy who heard there were no fish in McElligot's Pool and then saw them swimming in from the sea." M.B. King of the Chicago Sun emphasized the book's humor, writing, "This time prepare to chuckle under water for you'll be meeting the weirdest, wildest, funniest creatures of the sea which imagination can conjur." S.J. Johnson of Library Journal called the book "as diviniely idiotic" as And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.'. Dr. Seuss (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, "variant c." Book has small bump/crack on the bottom of the back panel, still very good. Dust jacket has 250/250 price on front flap and $2.50 on rear flap. There is a chip on the top of the jacket, beginning in the front panel, across the spine area and into the back panel. There is another smaller chip to the bottom of the jacket, around the spine area. Overall, the jacket is rated as good. Please see photos. Younger and Hirsch pp. 131-133 describes the first edition "variant c" as follows: "Bound in dark blue-green boards, new drawing of fish on cover with fish mouth closed, 7-line copyright notice, no writing on spine, $2.50 price added to lower rear flap of dw." All these points are present in this copy. This book will no longer be published by the estate of the author.…

Hardcover. Later printing. This early 1960s printing was inscribed by Dr. Seuss for a young mother in 1963 at a bookshop one mile from Dr. Seuss's home in La Jolla, California. It was acquired by us directly from the person for whom this book was purchased, to whom it was inscribed, and whose family enjoyed this book for three generations. This copy is inscribed on the lower left corner of the front free endpaper verso in four lines "for | JiLL | with Best Wishes | Dr. Seuss" with a characteristic Dr. Seuss squiggle between the valediction and signature. EditionMcElligot's Pool was originally published in the fall of 1947. It was Dr. Seuss's first children's book since 1940, and marked his return to his life's purpose after the significant interruption of his Second World War service. "In 1946 Lieutenant Colonel Geisel was discharged and awarded the Legion of Merit for 'exceptionally meritorious service in planning and producing films.'" This book is one of the six now-suppressed Dr. Seuss titles, no longer published due to alleged insensitivity therein.This copy is a later printing, which we can speculate with confidence was printed between fall 1962 and fall 1963, when this copy was purchased and inscribed. In the list of "the other books by Dr. Seuss" on the rear face of the dust jacket, the most recent is Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book, published in the fall of 1962. The list lacks Hop on Pop, and Dr. Seuss's ABC, published in the spring and fall of 1963, respectively. The front flap, front face, spine, and rear flap of this dust jacket are nearly identical to the first printing, except for "295/295" on the upper front flap in lieu of the first printing's "250/250" and the lack of a "$2.50" price on the lower left corner of the rear flap (which some first printings had and some did not). ConditionAs Dr. Seuss surely intended when he signed this copy for a young mother in 1963, this book has been read, a lot, and then some more. If you seek a pristine, "trophy" copy, this book is not for you. Instead, it is imbued with provenance and story. Condition is very good in a very good dust jacket. The glossy paper-covered boards binding is tight and unfaded, with only light scuffs to the boards, a small blemish to the lower rear cover, and modest wear to the spine ends and corners. The contents are bright with light spotting almost entirely confined to the page edges. Dr. Seuss's inscription, inked in blue on the lower left front free endpaper verso, is bright and clean. Affixed to the lower left rear pastedown is the printed and illustrated ticket of "John Cole's Book & Craft Shop" in La Jolla, California, where this book was purchased and inscribed. The dust jacket is unclipped and almost entirely complete, with only the tiniest hint of a chip to the bottom edge of the rear face. The jacket is also clean and unfaded. Modest wear is primarily confined to the joints, flap folds, and spine ends, most noticeable, as with the binding beneath, at the corners and spine ends. The dust jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.ProvenanceThis book's life story is as compelling as the story within.In 1959, the family of the "Jill" to whom this book is inscribed moved from Los Angeles to Point Loma in San Diego a beautiful peninsula protecting San Diego's vaunted natural harbor. Point Loma is just a few miles south of La Jolla, the seaside promontory to which Dr. Seuss had moved in 1948, where he lived the rest of his life, and where he wrote the majority of his books. In July 1963, Jill had her first child a boy, Jeff. For Jill's birthday that November, her mom decided to give her a gift that she could share with her new baby. Jill's mom was friends with Barbara Cole, proprietor of John Cole's Books in La Jolla, and Barbara was friends with Dr. Seuss, who lived exactly one mile away from the shop. So, with Barbara's help, Jill's mom got Dr. Seuss to inscribe 22 brand new copies of his books of which this is one in the fall of 1963. Jill read and.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Illustrated by Dr. Seuss with alternating full-page color and black and white illustrations. First edition, first printing, with open-mouthed fish to front board; in its first issue dust jacket, with "250/250" to front flap. Publisher's green boards, with fish illustration in blind to front board, lettered in blind, and color pictorial endpapers; in its original wraparound pictorial dust jacket, with a fish eyeing a worm on a hook to front panel, lettered in red. Near fine book, with light fading to spine, a touch of rubbing to spine ends, and a tiny bit of staining to fore-edge of textblock; very good unclipped dust jacket, with light wear to spine ends, and some edgewear, most notably a couple of closed tears and some crease-marks to top edge of rear panel. Overall, an excellent copy of this early Dr. Seuss title. In this Dr. Seuss book, a farmer tells a boy named Marco, who's fishing at McElligot's Pool, that he'll have no luck catching fish there. In response, Marco fantasizes about all of the fantastical fish that he might catch there if he's patient enough. McElligot's Pool was the first book by Dr. Seuss to feature watercolors, though only half of the pages were published in color to save money. The book - Seuss's first in seven years - was a success and earned him his first Caldecott Honor. Interestingly, the book's main character, Marco, also stars in Seuss's first book, And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street (1937). Dr. Seuss (illustrator). …

First edition with the 250/250 price on the front flap as well as the $2.50 price added to the rear flap (state 'c') of the first Dr. Seuss title to feature full-color art on every other page. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "For Mrs. Haye with very kindest regards- Dr. Seuss." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Uncommon signed and inscribed. The story begins as a boy named Marco fishes in a small, trash-filled pond, McElligot's Pool. A local farmer laughs at the boy and tells him that he is never going to catch anything. Nevertheless, Marco holds out hope and begins to imagine a scenario in which he might be able to catch a fish. First, he suggests that the pool might be fed by an underground brook that travels under a highway and a hotel to reach the sea. Marco then imagines a succession of fish and other creatures that could be in the sea and therefore the pool. He imagines, among others, a fish with a checkerboard stomach, a seahorse with the head of an actual horse, and an eel with two heads. When Marco is done imagining, he tells the farmer, "Oh, the sea is a so full of a number of fish,/ If a fellow is patient, he might get his wish!" Geisel painted some of the water colors that illustrate McElligot's Pool while vacationing with his wife, Helen, at the summer home of their friend Kelvin Vanderlip, in southern California. The book was the first Dr. Seuss book to use water colors for its illustrations; however, because of budget concerns, Random House published half of the book in black and white, alternating between two pages in color and two pages in black and white. It became a Junior Literary Guild selection and garnered Dr. Seuss his first Caldecott Honor.…

Hardcover. First edition, early printing. Very Good hardcover with moderate rubbing along the bottom edges of the boards, light rubbing to the upper extremities, and a small bookplate partially covering a previous owner's name to the front paste down under the dj flap in a Very Good dust jacket with rubbing to the extremities and a small tear/crease at the heel. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Marco daydreams of all the possibilities that await him while he fishes in McElligot's Pool. A Caldecott Honor-winner. As per Younger & Hirsch 53, the dust jacket matches all points of a state C with the $2.50 price to the lower corner of the rear flap. The book is probably a later printing as it is a variant not covered by Y&H: blue-green boards, fish mouth closed, and a 4-line copyright notice but with no text to the spine. Written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel). Unpaginated [56 pages]; color and b&w illustrations throughout + decorated endpapers; 8.25 x 11.125 inches.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good For Age. Dust Jacket Condition: Good / with Protective Cover. First American Edition. Good condition. Clean text, few breaks in the spine. This is a first edition but a third state. The original price is still on the d.j. it was not clipped, priced at $2.50. The fish on the cover has it's mouth closed, there is some chipping on the spine ( 2" deep) of said cover. Only four titles listed on the back of book. Book is teal with black. Ownership marks on the FEP. Previous bookseller sticker on the BEP 'Hudsons Book Shop Detroit'. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Seuss, Dr. {Theodore Geisel} (illustrator).…

dj. First Edition. A Very Good Later Printing of McElligot's Pool in a Bright Later-Issue Dust Jacket SEUSS, Dr. McElligot's Pool. Written and Illustrated by Dr. Seuss. New York: Random House, [1947]. First edition, later printing with four-line copyright notice. Quarto (11 x 8 inches; 279 x 204 mm.). [56] pp. Title-page printed in red and black. Profusely illustrated in color throughout by Dr. Seuss. Publisher's light green cloth, front cover decoratively stamped and titled in black (fish with closed mouth), spine lettered in black, color pictorial endpapers. Some light black stains on covers, otherwise very good. Later issue pictorial dust jacket, price-clipped dust jacket with only the slightest chipping at head of spine and upper corner; overall, an excellent example. McElligot's Pool was Dr. Seuss's second color-illustrated children's book, and the first to feature Marco-the imaginative boy from And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. Here Marco muses about the unlikely wonders that might be lurking in a seemingly ordinary pond, ranging from humble fish to Seussian creatures of fantasy. The book celebrates limitless imagination and remains one of Seuss's most whimsical and inventive early works. See Younger & Hirsch 53.…