The Cat, the Grinch & Horton

A Christie’s New York sale of June 9 included a collection of Dr Seuss books, illustrated letters and other ephemera formed by Jed Mattes, who in 1977, following the death of Theodor Geisel’s long-term agent Phyllis Jackson, took over as his representative.

Many of the lots bore inscriptions, some of them illustrated - albeit these were not contemporary - …

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