Snippy And Snappy (1931)
First Edition Identification - Wanda Gag
Snippy and Snappy; written and Illustrated by Wanda Gág; Coward-McCann, 1931.
Children’s Picturebook Price Guide Value – $920 VG+
Essential Identifying Points - Book:
Copyright page has four lines, as follows:
Copyright 1931 by
COWARD McCANN , INC.
All rights reserved.
Printed in U.S.A.
The title page ends with two lines as follows:
PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK ~~~~~~~~ BY
COWARD-McCANN, INC - IN THE YEAR 1931
Essential Identifying Points – Dust Jacket
The front and back dust jacket flaps are blank.
The back dust jacket has four paragraph’s framed in a black rectangle.
The first paragraph is a short biography of Wanda Gág. The second paragraph is a quote from Rockwell Kent. The third paragraph is a critic’s acclaim for Millions of Cats. The fourth paragraph is a quote from Anne Carroll Moore.
A similar back DJ composition was used on both the first printing of Wanda Gág’s The Funny Thing (1929) and Snippy And Snappy (1931).
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