# Is "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) (Vanguard Press, 1937) is identified by: Seuss's first children's book. The US Vanguard Press 1937 edition is the true first and is very scarce, especially in the first-issue jacket.

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- Seuss's first children's book
- First edition, first issue: Vanguard Press, 1937 on both the title and copyright pages, with no later printings listed
- The defining first-issue point is the boy Marco shown in WHITE shorts on the front cover and on the jacket; a later second state corrects the shorts to blue
- First-issue jacket is priced 1.00 on the lower front flap
- Pictorial boards
- Publisher imprint reads Vanguard Press
- Not a book-club edition (see below)

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) |
| Publisher | Vanguard Press |
| Year | 1937 |
| True first | US edition |
| Format | Children's / illustrated |
| Key point | Seuss's first children's book |
| Book-club edition exists? | Yes |

## Points of issue
Dr. Seuss's first children's book. First edition, first issue: Vanguard Press, 1937 on both the title and copyright pages, with no later printings listed. The defining first-issue point is the boy Marco shown in WHITE shorts on the front cover and on the jacket; a later second state corrects the shorts to blue. First-issue jacket is priced 1.00 on the lower front flap. Pictorial boards.

## Is this the true first?
The US Vanguard Press 1937 edition is the true first and is very scarce, especially in the first-issue jacket. Random House later acquired the Seuss list, but the original publisher is Vanguard.

## Telling it from reprints & book-club editions
Book-club and later printings carry the corrected blue-shorts artwork or a Random House imprint and are not the 1937 first issue.

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street* by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/and-to-think-that-i-saw-it-on-mulberry-street
CC BY 4.0. Part of the Canonical First-Edition Points of Issue dataset (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/first-edition-titles.json). Last reviewed 2026-07-04.