CHILDREN'S & ILLUSTRATED 104 “The Moose Won’t Object… He’s The Big-Hearted Kind” 116SEUSS, Dr. Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose. New York, 1948. Quarto, original blue cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $8000 Later edition of this much-loved Seuss title, inscribed: “For Michael Brennan, Best Wishes—Dr. Seuss.” The story of an over-hospitable moose “is told in verses which march in double-quick time. The pictures are scenes of happy confusion” (New York Times). Later edition, bound in blue paper boards, with seven-line copyright notice omitting lithographer, and without radiating white lines on front wrapper. Younger & Hirsch 77. Book with a couple spots of faint soiling, paper clip mark to first two pages, and dampstain to front board. Price-clipped dust jacket with a bit of wear to extremities. An extremely good inscribed copy. “Dickens’ Imagination Simply Pours Into Everything He Writes” 117DICKENS, Charles. A Child’s History of England. London, 1852-54. Three volumes. Small octavo, late 19th-century full navy morocco gilt, custom chemise and slipcase. $4500 First edition, first state, of Dickens’s history of England for children, with frontispieces by F.W. Topham, beautifully bound by Alfred Matthews. “Very sharp and very opinionated… the book bears a strong resemblance to his two historical novels, Barnaby Rudge and A Tale of Two Cities... Dickens’s imagination simply pours into everything he writes or speaks, and so there are moments of great power” (Ackroyd, Dickens, 584). First state, with all first state points. Eckel 128-129. Smith II:10. Expert repairs to joints and extremities. A beautifully bound copy.
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