The Funny Thing (1929)
First Edition Identification - Wanda Gag
The Funny Thing; written and Illustrated by Wanda Gág; Coward-McCann, 1929.
Children’s Picturebook Price Guide Value – $940 VG+
Essential Identifying Points - Book:
Copyright page has three lines, as follows:
Copyright 1929 by
Coward McCann , INC.
All rights reserved.
Printed in U.S.A.
PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK
by COWARD-McCANN, Inc.
IN THE YEAR 1929
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).
Linda and Stan Zielinski, authors of the Children's Picturebook Price Guide, are "serious collectors having fun with fun books."
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