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[DR. SEUSS]. Starve the Squander Bug. Buy War Bonds.. U.S. Government Printing Office, [Washington, D.C.], 1943.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: Broadside poster. Offset lithograph printed in green and black depicting a Seuss-like character devouring dollar bills. 13-3/8 x 11-1/2 inches. A very attractive clean copy with the slight use at edges and a tiny (1/4") chip at the lower right corner. Lower left: U.S. Government Printing Office 16-35253-1 and lower right: WFD 865.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

[SEUSS, Dr (Theodore GEISEL) and Munro LEAF]. This is Ann. U.S. Government Printing Office, [Washington, D.C.], 1943.

Price: US$1800.00 + shipping

Description: 5.25.x 4.25 inches. 32 pages. Pictorial wrappers, stapled. A SCARCE EARLY WORK BY DR. SEUSS. First edition, first inner rear wrapper variant reading "U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943 - 543637". This copy, with two staples, is considered the earliest. During World War II, Theodore Geisel took a hiatus from writing children's books (his first, from 1937, was 'And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street'). Having previously been a commercial illustrator, Geisel worked during these years as a political cartoonist, and worked in the animation and film department of the United States Army. 'This is Ann,' a cautionary tale about malaria rendered in characteristic Seussian style, stems from this early period, before Geisel's emergence as one of the greatest children's book author/illustrators of the 20th century. Younger 78. In unusually fresh condition, the wrappers with slightest of toning and a few tiny spots, the staples lightly rusted

Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.