Seuss Books: A Guide to Identification by Helen and Marc Younger and Dan Hirsch. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, Second Issue(with '50 word vocabulary' printed) matching all issue points inFirst Editions of Dr.

Random House's publisher, Bennet Cerf, had bet Seuss that he couldn't write a whole children's book with just 50 words, and Seuss met the challenge with 'Green Eggs and Ham.' Younger and Hirsch, pp. Seuss, which has never gone out of print. Uncommon true first printing of this landmark book by Dr. Besides, in later issues, the publisher simply printed the sticker design on the dust jacket.) Jacket in very good condition, with some short closed tears, mild creasing, and shallow wear to the spine ends less than is often seen. In the rare first-issue dust jacket, bearing the 195/195 price, and which has very evident sticker ghost below the printed 'I can read it all by myself' design (the first issue had a sticker which read '50 word vocabulary.' While that sticker is missing here, the ghost is evidence that it was once here. Two owner's names erased on the front paste-down, and the erasure has slightly discolored that area of the yellow endpapers. Some rubbing to the bottom edges, as often, with a tiny stress crack at one corner. Just about very good in the publisher's printed boards.

Jacket with a closed tear to rear panel and some light wear to spine ends: shows very well. A couple bumps to boards, one faintly affecting text at upper corner. Color pictorial endpapers, and illustrated in color throughout. '50 Word Vocabulary' printed on jacket, not a sticker. In original unclipped (195/195) color pictorial dust jacket.

According to biographer Brian Jay Jones, Seuss 'would rise to meet Cerf's challenge - and it was probably not entirely a coincidence that the central plot point of the resulting book was all about convincing someone to do something he didn't really want to do.' The outcome was the best-selling Dr. Composing GREEN EGGS AND HAM was a trial that went far beyond Cerf's fifty-dollar bet. Seuss's knockout success with limited-vocabulary stories for beginning readers, especially CAT IN THE HAT, led his publisher Bennett Cerf to offer a wager: 50 dollars that Seuss couldn't create a children's book using only 50 words. First edition of this spellbinding read-aloud masterpiece, in second-state dust jacket.

Green eggs and ham book