The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

London & New York: Frederick Warne, 1930.

Little Pig Robinson's aunts, Miss Porcas and Miss Dorcas, send him to the market to sell produce from their farm and purchase things they need. On his way home, little Pig Robinson is stopped by a sailor who offers him an array of goods and the chance to travel. Pig Robinson takes up the tar's offer and goes with the sailor to the ship... Second printing, same year as the first. With the excellent and unclipped dust-jacket, slightly nicked at ends of the backstrip. 8vo. pp 96, with six coloured plates and several b/w illusts in the text. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt title and illustration executed in brown to upper board, title repeated on spine, brown single-rule border to front. Neat, contemporary gift inscription to front pastedown hidden by the front flap. A near fine copy.