I CAN READ WITH MY EYES SHUT!, WONDERFULLY INSCRIBED BY SEUSS TO HIS LITERARY AGENT JED MATTES
SEUSS, Dr. I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! New York: Random House, (1978). Quarto, original pictorial paper boards.
First edition of Seuss’ celebration of reading, whimsically inscribed by him with his characteristic flourish to his literary agent, “for Jed Mattes with thanks for his help in my reading, righting and rithmatic, and, most especially, the latter, Dr. Seuss.”
The Cat in the Hat teaches a young protégé—and Seuss’ devoted audience—about the joys of reading. Issued without dust jacket. Younger & Hirsch 39. Jed Mattes, Geisel’s “young agent,” had “worked with [agent] Phyllis Jackson and inherited Dr. Seuss at her death” in 1977 (Morgan, 240).
A fine and desirable inscribed presentation/association copy.