LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF YOU'RE ONLY OLD ONCE, ONE OF ONLY 500 SIGNED BY DR. SEUSS
SEUSS, Dr. You're Only Old Once! New York: Random House, (1986). Quarto, original green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, pictorial endpapers, matching slipcase. $1250.
First edition, number 339 of only 500 copies signed by Dr. Seuss, specially bound in publisher's green cloth with matching slipcase.
"In You're Only Old Once! Ted was less a storyteller or narrator than a memoirist. The book was his unexpected lamentation about the infirmities of age and the indignities of the health-care system, written when he was 'fed up with a social life consisting entirely of doctors'" (Morgan, 261). The book saw publication on Geisel's 82nd birthday. Published in the same year the first trade edition. Younger & Hirsch 83A.
Spine and box edges very gently toned. An about-fine signed copy.