Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories, The – Dr. Seuss
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For sale: a rare and exceptional first edition first printing  of The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories by Dr. Seuss, with no dust jacket as issued.. First Edition stated, 2011 Random House. First Printing with full number line reversed, 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Full sized picture book, not the Golden Books edition.

The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, illustrated boards with mild surface wear, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, strong spine ends, mild edge wear, and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions, or any other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.

No dust jacket as issued.

Seuss scholar/collector Charles D. Cohen has hunted down seven rarely seen stories by Dr. Seuss. Originally published in magazines between 1948 and 1959, they include “The Bear, the Rabbit, and the Zinniga-Zanniga ” (about a rabbit who is saved from a bear with a single eyelash!); “Gustav the Goldfish” (an early, rhymed version of the Beginner Book A Fish Out of Water); “Tadd and Todd” (a tale passed down via photocopy to generations of twins); “Steak for Supper” (about fantastic creatures who follow a boy home in anticipation of a steak dinner); “The Bippolo Seed” (in which a scheming feline leads an innocent duck to make a bad decision); “The Strange Shirt Spot” (the inspiration for the bathtub-ring scene in The Cat in the Hat Comes Back); and “The Great Henry McBride” (about a boy whose far-flung career fantasies are only bested by those of the real Dr. Seuss himself).