Mcelligot's Pool by Seuss, First Edition (23 results)

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). 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+. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.

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).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book Club Edition. Pictorial hardcover, square, tight and clean with about a half-inch chip out of spine top back cover. Corner bump bottom of back cover. Pages are extra clean and uncreased. No marks or names, unpaginated. None of my books are ex-lib., remainders or bce unless specified.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Seuss, Dr. (illustrator). 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 is 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dr. Seuss (illustrator). 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 spine (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.

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: 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.

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: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine Copy in a Near fine Jacket. Green Cloth Fish Mouth Open. 250/250. All First Edition Points. Exceptionally Scarce. Beautiful Copy.

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.

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: Fine. Seuss, Dr. (illustrator). 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. SEUSS DR (illustrator). 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dr. Seuss (illustrator). First Edition, Early Printing. 56pp. Green boards with closed mouth fish on front panel, and three line copyright page statement. Light scuffing on the the spine edges, and corners, minor smudge on the front panel, otherwise internally clean unmarked. .Unclipped pictorial jacket is bright, except for 1" liftoff from a removed price sticker on the front panel.Otherwise, exept for a few closed tears, an attractive, well preserved DJ.in mylar sleeve. "295/295" on the upper front flap, denoting an early edition, whose list price was $2.95. One of the six Dr. Seuss titles terminated from future publication. "The story begins with a boy named Marco fishing in a small, trash-filled pond known as McElligot's Pool. A local farmer laughs at the boy and tells him that he will never be able to catch anything. Nevertheless, Marco holds out hope and begins to imagine a scenario in which he might be able to catch a fish." Size: Small 4vo.

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 the 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.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Dr. Seuss (illustrator). 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).

Hardcover. We are privileged to offer a collection of 21 Dr. Seuss titles, each inscribed identically for the same young mother in 1963 at a bookshop one mile from Dr. Seuss's home in La Jolla, California. "Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks."First, the story. In 1959, Jill's family moved from Los Angeles to Point Loma in San Diego. 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 all 21 books we offer today to Jill in the fall of 1963. Jill read and reread these books to Jeff and his little sister, Lauren, born in 1966, throughout their childhood. In fact, the only writing in any of these books other than Dr. Seuss's inscriptions are "LAUREN YOUNG" and "JEFF YOUNG" written in The Sneetches and Other Stories on the day they took this favorite to school to share with teachers and friends. Jill and her husband raised Jeff and Lauren in Point Loma, in the same house where, eventually, they read and reread these same Dr. Seuss books to their granddaughters, just as they had once read them to their children. "My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?"Now, with both children and grandchildren grown, the books are offered to a new family for the first time since they were purchased for Jill by her mom and inscribed by Dr. Seuss in 1963. We offer these books together, as they have been for more than sixty years and three generations. "I do not like green eggs and ham."What's included? Dr. Seuss published 22 books for children between his first in 1937 and 1963's Hop on Pop. Of these 22, only Green Eggs and Ham is missing from this collection. As might be expected from their all being acquired, new, in 1963, only five are first printings (per Younger & Hirsch), three of these in the dust jackets: Hop on Pop (1963), Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book (1962, in DJ), The Sneetches and Other Stories (1961, in DJ), Yertle the Turtle (1958, in DJ), and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1957). The balance of the titles, thirteen of them jacketed, are: One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (1960, DJ), Happy Birthday to You (1959, DJ), The Cat in the Hat Comes Back (1958, DJ), The Cat in the Hat (1957, DJ), If I Ran the Circus (1956), On Beyond Zebra! (1955, DJ), Horton Hears a Who! (1954), Scrambled Eggs Super! (1953), If I Ran the Zoo (1950, DJ), Bartholomew and the Oobleck (1949, DJ), Thidwick the Big Hearted Moose (1948, DJ), McElligot's Pool (1947, DJ), Horton Hatches the Egg (1940, DJ), The King's Stilts (1939, DJ), The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (1938, DJ), And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1937, DJ)Each of the books 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. Affixed to each lower left rear pastedown is/was the illustrated bookseller's ticket of "John Cole's | Book & Craft Shop | 7871 Ivanhoe Avenue | La Jolla California". The Hop on Pop ticket was apparently peeled by a child, the residue remaining. The One Fish Two Fish and Scrambled Eggs Super! stickers were partially removed, with some of the printed sticker still intact."Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."Regarding condition, these books have been read, a lot, and then some more. If you seek pristine, "trophy" copies, these are not for you. Instead, they are imbued with provenance and story. All of the bindings are intact, all of the contents complete. We find various amounts of wear, soiling, and spotting. An itemized, book-by-book condition report is available upon request. First edition, first printings and later printings and editions.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Edition. Good++ in a fair dust jacket. The fish's mouth is 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, Variant A. The binding 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.

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. Seuss, Dr. {Theodore Geisel} (illustrator). 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.

No Binding. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Seuss (illustrator). 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 covers and age browning inside. The color pages are very nice. 56 total pages. PHOTOS ON REQUEST. Great item for the completest collector.