DR. SEUSS
A GUIDE TO FIRST EDITIONS
CORRECTIONS (updated 04-07-2007)

p. 15 In the earliest state of the first printing, the boy's shorts on the cover and on the dust wrapper are white. They were later corrected to blue

P. 16-17 The description of the dust wrapper and the picture of the dust wrapper are not for a first edition because they list later titles

P. 26: THE SECOND LINE OF THE COLLATION SECTION SHOULD INSERT THE WORDS "line skip":
COPYRIGHT, 1957, BY DR. SEUSS [line skip]/ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

p.58 LC card number should be 62-17157

p.59, (Dr. Seuss Sleep Book) front flap should be 295/295

p.66: last line of text, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CARD # SHOULD BE 68-28462 (not 68-28463)

p.82: DATE: ON TITLE PAGE should say 1963

p.83: SPINE: should end with B-29

p.90 FIRST PRINTING POINTS - The "variant" with the list of "other titles" on the recto of the of the rear free end paper is the 1st issue. Later issue has these "other titles" as described. You can identify the 1st issue of text without a dust jacket, but the correct dust jacket must have the points listed. (Thanks to Stan & Linda Zielinski, http://1stedition.net/blog/2007/01/horton_hears_a_who_1954.html)

p. 92: THE FIRST LINE OF THE COLLATION SECTION SHOULD INSERT THE WORDS ""half-title":
Pictorial endpapers, verso ffep blank, half-title, title page

p.98: THE 12th LINE FROM THE BOTTOM SHOULD READ: by 5-line blurb by (not 6 line blurb)

p. 112 First printings have a 7 line copyright notice omitting BASED ON MATERIAL WHICH ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN REDBOOK MAGAZINE. (Thanks to Stan & Linda Zielinski, http://1stedition.net/blog/2007/03/if_i_ran_the_zoo_1950.html)

p. 131-3 - The illustration and dw description are for state "c" of the dust wrapper. State "a" does not have the price on the rear flap.

p.144, in the 4th line of COLLATION should read 7 lines of text (not 8)

p. 153: THE 4th LINE of TITLE PAGE description, the word "simultaneously" should not have a hyphen or a slash in it.

p.158 Despite the First Printing statement on the copyright page of the 1961 edition, there was an earlier Pocket Book of Boners published July, 1941. The text for the 2 books is generally the same, but not identical and the listings are not always given in the same order in each book. The 1961 edition has 34 b&w's by Seuss (including covers which are not repeated in text) while the 1941 edition only has 22. The typeface is different so the pagination differs and the covers differ. The 1941 edition is printed on better quality paper.

p.184 line 6 of the collation - the date of 1947 should not be present. The line ends with "LTD."

p.187: THE SECOND LINE OF THE FIRST PRINTING POINTS SHOULD SAY:
The copy with the lowest number (a.) Is bound with 2 staples, later copies
are bound with only one staple.

p. 198 collation, copyright page has 7 not 8 lines