Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book.
Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms. Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes. Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid. Light wear to extremities of bright dust jacket, with two-inch closed tears to front and back panels. Interior fine mild rubbing to extremities of boards. Owner inscription dated year of publication. First-printing book with white dots at bottom of page (the text begins, “Today is your birthday! You get what you wish.”) first-issue dust jacket with “295/295” on top of front inner flap of dust jacket. 
The success this whimsical title enjoyed testified to Geisel’s enormous popularity after The Cat in the Hat and How the Grinch Stole Christmas! “Despite an increased initial print run of 100,000 copies, when Happy Birthday to You! was released in August 1959, within a few weeks, stocks of the book were exhausted” (Cohen, 343). Seuss,” with the author’s characteristic squiggle. Seuss book printed entirely in color, inscribed: “for the Hessels with Best Wishes, Dr. Slim quarto, original pictorial paper boards, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket.įirst edition of the first Dr. Happy Birthday to You! New York: Random House, (1959). FIRST EDITION OF HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!, INSCRIBED BY DR.
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