Abingdon

1931 · ref. 153073 — New York: The Viking Press 1931. First edition of this popular collection of schoolroom howlers one of the very first books to carry his drawings. Duodecimo original red cloth. Compiled by Alexander Abingdon and illustrated by Dr. Seuss. Presentation copy inscribed by Dr. Seuss on the front pastedown “With Best Wishes to Chuck Meeks Dr. Seuss.” In very good condition signature to the front free endpaper. An appealing early Dr. Seuss association item rare and desirable signed. Boners is a collection of unintentionally comic answers and mistakes gathered from schoolroom examination papers by the compiler Alexander Abingdon. The book is chiefly prized today for its illustrations by Dr. Seuss Theodor Seuss Geisel for whom it was among the very first books he illustrated six years before his own first children’s book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street 1937. A great popular success Boners spawned several sequels among them More Boners also illustrated by Seuss. Geisel would go on to become the most beloved children’s author of the twentieth century the creator of The Cat in the Hat Green Eggs and Ham and How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Viking Press hardcover