Pink Furniture. A Tale for Lovely Children with Noble Natures.

London: Jonathan Cape, [1930].

Price: $100.00


About the item

Gurney, Nancy Bankart. First edition, first issue. Illustrated by Nancy Bankart Gurney. 251 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original pink cloth [ the earliest issue] giving, in A.E.C.'s own words a "Striped effect", and with an inverted 't' on p. 191. A very good copy in a unclipped dust wrapper by D.G. Bourne, missing few chips. Schwartz p. 40; Muir pp. l07-l08.

Item #1570

To quote Coppard: "This book originated in a bathroom. It was not my idea. Once I stopped at an hotel in Ireland, and when I asked for a bathroom: "there's not a bathroom in the place sir", says he. "not" "Sure there was a little pan somewhere; I don't rightly know what's become of it now..."