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First edition, first printing. The first issue jacket includes the price, five paragraphs and the code "(60-90)" on the front flap, a blurb for The King's Stilts on the rear flap, and testimonials on the rear panel. This is considered to be one of the hardest Seuss titles to find in the first printing with an unrestored dust jacket. "Egg hatching is Bird's Work. So when an Elephant hatches an egg, that's NEWS in any jungle!" (jacket blurb). Quarto. Original grey cloth, front cover lettered in red. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom brown cloth slipcase. Illustrated throughout by the author. Bookseller's label to rear pastedown. Extremities a little bumped, minor abrasion to front pastedown, some light toning and finger-soiling; extremities of unclipped jacket worn with some minor loss and tears, some light toning and soiling: a very good copy in like jacket. Younger & Hirsch 31.

Horton Hatches the Egg is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss. First published in 1940, the book tells the story of Horton the Elephant, who is tricked into sitting on a bird's egg while its mother takes a permanent vacation. The book features themes of perseverance and loyalty.