{"product_id":"set-of-nine-beginner-books-and-bright-early-hardcovers-dr-seuss-p-d-eastman-and-robert-lopshire-c-1985-1989","title":"Set of Seven Beginner Books Hardcovers — Dr. Seuss, P.D. Eastman and Robert Lopshire, c. 1985–1989","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe Piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeven hardcovers from the Random House early-reader line, and the reason to take them together is what they do stacked. The trim is uniform, the spines are colour-blocked, and the same small cat in a striped hat repeats down the edge of every one of them. A shelf of these reads as a run rather than a pile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe set: \u003cem\u003eThe Cat in the Hat\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAre You My Mother?\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTen Apples Up On Top!\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eI Am NOT Going to Get Up Today!\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePut Me in the Zoo\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGo, Dog. Go!\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMarvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe colours are the point. Saturated blue, two greens, apple green, orange and white, all in laminated boards that still carry a shine. Several spines carry the original series numbers — B-1, B-17, B-18, B-19, B-74 — printed at the tail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInside, the paper is bright and the two- and four-colour printing is sharp, with the text set large and open across every page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHistory \u0026amp; Provenance\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese books are the output of a deliberate literacy project, not a cartoon franchise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1954 John Hersey wrote in \u003cem\u003eLife\u003c\/em\u003e that American children were being bored out of reading by the Dick and Jane primers. The challenge landed on Theodor Geisel, who spent a year and a half writing a story inside a beginner's vocabulary of roughly two hundred words. \u003cem\u003eThe Cat in the Hat\u003c\/em\u003e came out in 1957 and worked immediately, and its success created Beginner Books at Random House — which is why the Cat carries B-1 on its spine. It was the first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeisel ran the imprint and edited it hard, but he did not write all of it, and the set is better for that. \u003cem\u003eAre You My Mother?\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGo, Dog. Go!\u003c\/em\u003e are by \u003cstrong\u003eP.D. Eastman\u003c\/strong\u003e, who came out of Warner Bros. and UPA animation. \u003cem\u003ePut Me in the Zoo\u003c\/em\u003e is by \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Lopshire\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003cem\u003eTen Apples Up On Top!\u003c\/em\u003e was written under Geisel's Theo. LeSieg pen name. So this is a Beginner Books set, not strictly a Dr. Seuss set, and we would rather say that plainly than let the shelf imply otherwise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne more thing stated outright. \u003cstrong\u003eThese are later printings, not first editions\u003c\/strong\u003e — a true 1957 first of the Cat is a serious collector's book and prices in another world entirely. What is offered here is a matched run of clean reading copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ctable border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"8\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"width:100%; border-collapse:collapse;\"\u003e\n\u003cthead\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left; vertical-align:top;\"\u003eField\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left; vertical-align:top;\"\u003eDetail\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/thead\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eObject\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eSeven hardcover children's books\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eTitles\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eThe Cat in the Hat; Are You My Mother?; Ten Apples Up On Top!; I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today!; Put Me in the Zoo; Go, Dog. Go!; Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eAuthors\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eDr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), P.D. Eastman, Robert Lopshire\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003ePublisher\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eBeginner Books, a division of Random House, New York\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eForm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eIllustrated laminated hardcovers, no dust jackets as issued. Series codes B-1, B-17, B-18, B-19 and B-74 to several spines.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eEra\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003ec. 1985–1989. Later printings; the titles were first published between 1957 and 1972.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eCondition\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eVery good across the set. All seven are structurally sound with tight square bindings, no loose or missing pages, and clean unmarked text and illustrations throughout. The laminated boards are bright and still glossy. Expect light rubbing and surface scuffing on the darker boards, where wear shows most, and whitening at some corners and spine ends. No tears, no inscriptions, no odour. Condition Guaranteed.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eAvailability\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eSold as a set of seven\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy It Belongs in Your Home\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a nursery library in a single purchase. Building a shelf like this one title at a time takes months of looking and costs more; here it arrives assembled, matched in size, and in condition good enough to actually hand to a child.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt also solves a decorating problem that plain books do not. Seven uniform spines in saturated colour make a block of pattern on a low shelf, a stair landing, or the bottom row of a bookcase — the kind of thing that reads as deliberate from across a room. Turn one or two face out and the covers carry it further.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor a shop, the maths is straightforward: seven recognisable titles in one carton, at a per-book cost well under what any of them fetches singly. These are books nobody needs to be sold on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA note on care: laminated boards are tougher than dust jackets but not invincible. Keep them out of direct sun, which fades the blues and reds first and fastest. Wipe covers with a dry or barely damp cloth and never a cleaner, which will cloud or lift the lamination. Shelve upright rather than stacked under weight. If children are going to use them, expect new wear and let it happen — that is what these were built for.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Viridian Eclection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48029593305193,"sku":null,"price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/0093\/9369\/files\/IMG_37392.jpg?v=1788998801","url":"https:\/\/viridianeclection.com\/products\/set-of-nine-beginner-books-and-bright-early-hardcovers-dr-seuss-p-d-eastman-and-robert-lopshire-c-1985-1989","provider":"Viridian Eclection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}