Snippy And Snappy (1931)

Wanda Gag First Edition Identification

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).