Pink Furniture. A Tale for lovely Children with noble Natures
( Nancy Bankart GURNEY, illus. ) COPPARD, A. E.
Illustrated by Nancy Bankart Gurney. [First Trade Edition.]
FIRST TRADE EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Jonathan Cape, [1930]
Stock code: 50402
Price: £38.00
8vo., First Edition thus, Second Issue, with full-page illustrations in the text, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; pink cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in blue, covers lightly age-soiled, top dust-soiled, else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly age-soiled dustwrapper.
Fabes defines the second issue (as distinct from the Advance issue dated 1929 of which fewer than eight copies are known) as having vertical grain cloth and the famous reversed 't' on p.191. With the misprint 'Soapy' for 'Toby' on p.113. Fabes, pp.23-4; Schwartz pp.39-41.