Calf Binding material made from cowhide-versatile, durable, usually tan or brown in color, of smooth texture with no or little apparent grain.

Broadside Sheet printed on one side, typically for public display, usually larger than folio size (a folio being a broadside-size sheet printed on both sides and folded once, to make four pages).

Book-Plate Label, generally affixed to the front pastedown, identifying a book’s owner.

Of particular value to collectors as evidence of a very early form of the book.

“Original boards” refers to cardboard-like front and back boards, from about 1700 to 1840, used as temporary protection for books before their purchasers would have them bound.

Boards Hard front and rear covers of a bound book which are covered in cloth, leather or paper.

Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book.

Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms.

Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes.

Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.

A very good copy of this landmark children’s book. Professional restoration to spine, extremities of boards and one page, just affecting edge of image, restored in neat pen-and-ink facsimile. Gift inscription from the year of publication. The main reason given by the other publishing houses for rejecting it was: it was too different from other children’s books then on the market” (Geisel papers, 1963 in Dr. It was rejected by twenty-eight publishing houses before the twenty-ninth, Vanguard Press, agreed to take a chance on bringing it out. Although I knew nothing about children’s books it sounded pretty good, so I decided to get it published. It turned into my first Juvenile… And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.

(The rhythm of the rudimentary refrain came from the beat of the ship’s motors.) This rhythm persisted in my head for about a week after I was off the ship and, probably as psycho-therapy, I began developing the theme. I was trying to keep my mind off the storm that was going on.

Seuss ever wrote for children were jotted down in the ship’s bar during a storm. Quarto, original pictorial paper boards.įirst edition, the first in a long line of fantastically successful children's books by the inimitable Dr. And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. A LANDMARK IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF DR.

And to think i saw it on mulberry st