{"id":192954,"date":"2021-03-02T19:30:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/prices-of-scrapped-dr-seuss-books-skyrocket-on-ebay\/"},"modified":"2021-03-02T19:30:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T16:30:20","slug":"prices-of-scrapped-dr-seuss-books-skyrocket-on-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/prices-of-scrapped-dr-seuss-books-skyrocket-on-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"#Prices of scrapped Dr. Seuss books skyrocket on eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Prices of scrapp<\/a>ed Dr. Seuss books skyrocket on eBay<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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These books are going away \u2014 but not if you\u2019re willing to pay.<\/p>\n

The prices of six Dr. Seuss titles exploded on eBay after the beloved author\u2019s publisher said it would stop selling them because they contained racist images.<\/p>\n

Prospective buyers placed bids in the hundreds of dollars Tuesday for vintage copies of the books that were listed for as little as $4.44 over the past week.<\/p>\n

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A 1955 edition of \u201cOn Beyond Zebra!\u201d<\/a> fetched a leading bid of $670 by 10:15 a.m. Eastern time \u2014 less than a day after it was put up for auction at a starting price of just $14.99.<\/p>\n

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A copy of \u201cThe Cat\u2019s Quizzer\u201d<\/a> from 1976 similarly saw its top offer skyrocket to $510 after it was listed for $9.99 on Monday.<\/p>\n

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An early 1960s copy of \u201cScrambled Eggs Super!\u201d<\/a> listed Saturday for just under $8 didn\u2019t get a single bid in its first three days on eBay, but the price jumped to $565 in less than three hours following the news<\/a> that it would no longer be published.<\/p>\n

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A \u201cFirst Book Club Edition\u201d of \u201cIf I Ran the Zoo\u201d<\/a> \u2014 which has drawn fire for its offensive caricatures of Asian and African people \u2014 received three bids for less than $10 in its first five days on the market before the offer to beat surged to $355 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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A 1947 copy of \u201cMcElligot\u2019s Pool\u201d<\/a> listed for less than five bucks last Friday was recently going for $620, while a 1937 edition of \u201cAnd to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street\u201d<\/a> fetched a $305 bid about an hour after it was listed Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

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All six books were also in short supply on Amazon, where third-party sellers are selling collectible editions for thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n

Amazon warned buyers that four of the books were out of print with \u201climited availability.\u201d Only \u201cIf I Ran the Zoo\u201d and \u201cMcElligot\u2019s Pool\u201d didn\u2019t bear that notice on Tuesday \u2014 but the only copies available ran from $920.99 to $4,500.<\/p>\n

Neither Amazon nor eBay immedia<\/a>tely responded to requests for comment Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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