Mcelligots Pool: First Edition (22 results)
Published by collins london 1975 1975
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New ZealandHard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd.
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first UK edition unpaginated ills.[b/w and col.by author] VG quarto hardcover.
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- First Edition
Seller: Phoenix Books NZ, Waimate, CANTE, New ZealandPhoenix Books NZ
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. McElligot's Pool By Dr. Seuss. Publisher: Collins, London, 1975. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE. First printing of the British edition of this now banned Dr. Seuss book. Hardback with papered boards. Covers are rubbed, marked, chipped and bumped with paper strip missing from spine.… Binding firm. No inscriptions. Some foxing to pages. Two pages have been scribbled on in ink. Price sticker to back cover £1.95. Banned due to the racist imagery it contains (more specifically, an "Eskimo" fish).
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Published by Random House 1947
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Little Moon Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Little Moon Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition , early printing with 295/295 price on DJ. Book has moderate wear to edges. DJ has price intact with some wear, chips, closed tears. Tiny pencil mark free end paper otherwise appears clean.
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Published by Random House, New York 1947
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.Medium Rare Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Random House. New York. Un-paginated (64 pages.) Last date on copyright page is 1947. Lightly penciled gift inscription (erasable) on half-title page dated July 4, 1967. Small code on base of copyright page states 23 866; presumably the 23rd overall printing, published August 1966. This i…s one of the older Seuss publications when they still used a matte finish in contrast to the contemporary glossy finishes. No printed SBNs or ISBN numbers, no printed price on rear, no barcodes, no internet address, etc. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. No writing within other than a lightly-penciled gift inscription that is erasable. Illustrated endpapers are bright and clean. Rubbing along edges and corner tips; heavier rubbing on heel. Light scuffing. A good+ copy; strong, tight and clean. Seuss, Dr. (illustrator).
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Published by Random House 1947
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Foster Books, Board of Directors FABA, Davie, FL, U.S.A.Foster Books, Board of Directors FABA
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, fourth state per Younger and Hirsch (which I own). Hardback book with dust jacket. The very good minus jacket has some rubbing and chips/tears (see photos). There is a 4 1/2" piece of clear tape on the back side of the jacket at the sp…ine (I'm sure to repair a tear. This was done so discreetly I almost missed it at first.) 250/250 price on the front flap and no pricing info on the back flap. The very good book is sturdy, clean and complete with some wear to corners/spine ends. Very light age-toning to the endpapers and owner's name/date on the half-title page. Closed mouth fish on cover, longer Random House imprint on the spine and four lines copyright notice. The jacket is protected under a clear mylar cover. Dr. Seuss (illustrator).
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Published by Random House 1947
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Kerkhoff Books DIV KSI, Warsaw, IN, U.S.A.Kerkhoff Books DIV KSI
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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 c…omplete story.
Language: English
Published by Random House 1947
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Linda's Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.Linda's Rare Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Variant state with fish mouth closed on front board. All other points are present. Front board has some soiling to the left bottom corner and a few dark dots. Interior is clean and tight. DJ is first state and has some rubbing, mostly to spine tips…and minor soiling to back.Price is intact and on rear DJ. In fresh mylar. Pics available. Very collectible copy of this now banned book.
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Published by Random House, New York 1947
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.Cat's Curiosities
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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.
Language: English
Published by Random House, New York 1947
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Redeemed Rare Books, La Jolla, CA, U.S.A.Redeemed Rare Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. McElligot's Pool by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel). New York: Random House, 1947. First Edition, First Printing. Publisher's original blue-green cloth binding with pictorial front board; binding sound and square, with light, even sh…elf wear. Interior clean, unmarked, and bright. Illustrated throughout by Dr. Seuss. Housed in a married dust jacket: the jacket is from a later Random House period (c. early 1950s), with correct front-panel artwork but a back panel advertising later Seuss titles not issued in 1947. Dust jacket present and intact, with general wear consistent with age. An honest, clearly described example of Seuss's fourth published book, offered with full disclosure. Collector's Note: Published in 1947, McElligot's Pool is among Dr. Seuss's earliest Random House titles and represents a formative moment in his postwar career, when his visual inventiveness and moral imagination began to crystallize into the style that would define his legacy. The book's central theme—faith in possibility in the face of skepticism—anticipates ideas Seuss would return to throughout his later work. True first editions of McElligot's Pool with original, period-correct dust jackets are notoriously scarce, particularly with intact flaps and original pricing. Survival rates for Seuss dust jackets of this era are low, and even worn examples are actively sought by collectors. Offered with full disclosure regarding jacket state, this copy remains a desirable example for its early place in the Seuss canon and its enduring cultural and historical significance. More photos on request and with our pleasure. Book will be carefully wrapped and boxed securely for safe handling during transit, with international shipping available. [Attributes: First Edition; First Printing; Hard Cover; in Dust Jacket; Illustrated] 64 pp. Dr. Seuss (illustrator).
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Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA
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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.
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Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printng. Green cover cloth cover with scarce fish mouth open has light wear to corners and spine caps and sunned spine but clean, bright, and in very good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Small faint erasure in upper right corner of… front end sheet. Pages are lightly toned except for 2 pages with a tiny red smudge, otherwise pages are clean and near pristine. .; Classic Seuss; 11.1 X 8.0 X 0.5 inches; 64 pages.
Published by Collins, London 1975
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA
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Hardcover. 1st British edition. First printing of the British edition of this now banned Dr. Seuss classic. Ex-library hardcover book. Covers worn with clear tape along the spine. All pages present but binding is shaken and splitting. Former owner's name else text is unmarked. Acceptable condition; ok for reading.
Published by Random House 1947
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Blue Sky Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.Blue Sky Rare Books
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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.
More imagesPublished by Random House, New York 1947
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.Medium Rare Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Random House. New York. Un-paginated (64 pages.) Copyright 1947, 1974. This is a fine copy of one of the notorious six discontinued Seuss titles; even banned in some of the more woke corners of the world. 44 titles on rear cover; with $14.95 price intact. A copy that was published during…the Internet era with a Random House website address on rear panel. A fine copy; tight, clean and bright; inside and out. No writing within. A fine copy of the newly controversial title. Seuss, Dr. (illustrator).
Published by RANDOM HOUSE, NY 1947
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: ARD Books, cleveland, OH, U.S.A.ARD Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A RARE BANNED DR SEUSS TITLE BOUND IN GREEN WITH SOLID BLACK LETTERING AND DESIGN THE FISH'S MOUTH IS CLOSED NO DATE ON TITLE PAGE COPYRIGHT PAGE STATES " COPYRIGHT 1947 BY RANDOM HOUSE INC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED UNDER INTERNATIONAL AND PAN AMERICAN COPYRIGHT CONVENTIONS IN THREE…LINES FOLLOWED AFTER BREAK WITH PRINTED IN THE U.S.A RANDOM HOUSE APPEARS ON SPINE ALL INDICTICATIONS FROM THE YOUNGER AND HIRSCH BOOK ARE PRESENT FOR A SECOND STATE TEXTBLOCK IS BRIGHT AND VERY GOOD AND UNMARKED SHOWING NORMAL WEAR LIGHT FRAYING TO TIPS BOOK HAS A 2 INCH HIGH BY 4 INCH WIDE STAIN AT THE BOTTOM OF SPINE THAT DOES NOT AFFECT THE TEXTBLOCK A TRULY RARE FIND IPHONE PICS AVAILABLE. SEUSS DR (illustrator).
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- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Bookworm and Apple, Bronx, NY, U.S.A.Bookworm and Apple
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. True First Edition. Meets all first edition points (Younger & Hirsch, pp. 131-133). Fish with open mouth on the cover. Seven line publication statement. No dust jacket. Good to very good condition. Kelly-green linen covered boards with dark green printing and illustration on th…e spine and cover. Mild rubbing on the spine ends and corners with some exposure to the boards. Spine is tight and square. Pages are clean with the following exceptions: Neat inscription on the inside front cover; child's name penciled on the sign of the facing page; two pages have some marks--one has a small fish drawn on the text in blue pen or pencil; one page has several light blue lines between 1-2 inches on the bottom left corner in blue pencil. Otherwise, pages are clean. No rips, bends, or stains. Illustrations are vibrant and amazing. A rare copy of a book that will only become harder to find.
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- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA
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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 f…ish 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).
Published by Random House, New York 1947
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Westsider Rare & Used Books Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.Westsider Rare & Used Books Inc.
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Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Good++ in a fair dust jacket. 1st Printing Varient A with the fish's mouth open on the front board illustration, the dust jacket has a 250/250 price on the front flap and no price on the rear flap. Seven lines of copyright notice. The bindin…g is good, some discoloration to the edges of the light green cloth boards. Rubbing to the head and tail of the spine. The dust jacket has closed tears, now repaired, as well as creases and chips on all edges. The front and rear panels remain whole. Pictures available upon request.
Published by Random House, New York 1947
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.Raptis Rare Books
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst 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.
Published by Random House, New York 1947
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.Lowry's Books
Contact seller4-star sellerHard 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).
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- First Edition
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.David Brass Rare Books, Inc.
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. 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.
Published by Random House 1975
- First Edition
Seller: A Casperson Books, Niles, MI, U.S.A.A Casperson Books
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No Binding. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First thus for this publication. This is an Advertising magazine "FREE WHEN YOU BUY.CREST OR WONDRDA OR PRELL". Definite piece of ephemera that is very uncommon! Tearing down spine about 4-5 inches, to the first staple. It is in a comic book form 8 x 11". Heavy browning to cov…ers and age browning inside. The color pages are very nice. 56 total pages. PHOTOS ON REQUEST. Great item for the completest collector. Seuss (illustrator).
