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POTTER, BEATRIX. The Tale of Little Pig Robinson. Philadelphia: David McKay Company, [after 1930]. 6 color illustrations and numerous black and white illustrations. Small 4to, original blue cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, upper cover with color pictorial label, pictorial endpapers printed in green; dust jacket, a little chipping to ends of spine panel and minor soiling, otherwise very good. Later issue of the McKay American edition, which differs from the earlier issue by having a blue cloth binding instead of green; the contents are printed on a lighter weight stock bulking to 1 cm. in thickness as opposed to 1.5 cm. in the first edition; and the dust jacket flaps are plain without any printed text. Not in Quinby, Linder, or V & A.