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Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1909. Book. Poor. Hardcover. Covers are very worn and rubbed. Half-title pg appears to have been removed. Several pgs have tears and/or stains. Facsimile of author's signature opposite title pg. Spine is tight; pgs are unmarked..
Blue Goops and Red: A Manual of Polite Deportment for Children who would be Good Showing How & How Not to Behave Everywhere; With Illustrations by Burgess, Gelett - 1909
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Blue Goops and Red: A Manual of Polite Deportment for Children who would be Good Showing How & How Not to Behave Everywhere; With Illustrations
by Burgess, Gelett
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1909. [iv] 81 pp. Missing two half-pages: 7-8, 31-32. Chip missing from pp. iii, 1, 17, 21, 41, 45, not affecting page image. Almost all others have tears p. 61 torn and detached but present. Binding soiled and rubbed significantly at corners. P.O. inscription Christmas, 1909. Blue goops are on half-pages, which when turned over reveal the good red goops, who regardless of their subservience seem to have devious facial expressions. Books by Burgess listed on verso of half-title are: Goops, and How to Be Them: A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants; More Goops, and How Not to Be Them: A Manual of Manners for Impolite Infants; Goop Tales, Alphabetically Told; The Biographies of 52 Celebrated Goops; Blue Goops and Red; The Lively City of O'Ligg: A Cycle of Modern Fairy Tales for City Children; The Burgess Nonsense Book: Being a Complete Collection of the Humerous Masterpieces of Gilette Burgess, Esq. Facsimile signature of Burgess below dedication on verso of title page.. First Edition. Cloth. Poor. Illus. by Burgess, Gelett. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Publisher Frederick A. Stokes Company
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1909
- Keywords Children's Books, Illustrated
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Blue Goops and Red: A Manual of Polite Deportment for Children who would be Good Showing How & How Not to Behave Everywhere; With Illustrations
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Blue Goops and Red: A Manual of Polite Deportment for Children Who Would Be Good Showing How & How Not to Behave Everywhere; With Illustrations
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1909 81 pages. Complete and fairly clean, but tears and light damage to several of the folds and pages.. Illus. by Illustrated. 4to. First Edition. Decorated Green Cloth. Good Plus.
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Blue Goops and Red: A Manual of Manners for Children
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1909. 1st . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Burgess, Gelett. 81pp.; HB green w/blue,blk.&red-pic.cover; heavy rub,scuff,&sun w/wear on edges&corners; ink notes w/clean,tight pgs. "A Manual of Polite Deportment for Children who would be Good Showing How & How Not to Behave Everywhere; With Illustrations
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Blue Goops and Red: A Manual of Polite Deportment for Children who would be Good Showing How & How Not to Behave Everywhere; With Illustrations
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1909. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. 8 x 10in. 81pp. Publisher's cloth boards with stamped decoration and titling. VERY GOOD. Shows the corners and head and foot of the spine shelf rubbed with slight loss, spine somewhat darkened, boards lightly handled, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text is clean and unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. As pictured.
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1909. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 10" by 8". None. A wonderful didactic children's book that takes as its theme 'turning over a new leaf', from an important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s First Edition. The most difficult to source of the goop books and here in amazing condition. With illustrations throughout, and half-page leaves to turn over for each moral lesson. Poems to describe how to behave in different situations, such as 'when spoken to', 'at a picnic', 'getting dressed', 'in cold weather'. On reverse side of blue goop leaves, short narratives describing what the goops did wrong in each picture, and what they should do. Facsimile signature of Gelett Burgess below dedication. Publisher's advertisement facing title-page. Frank Gelett Burgess (January 30, 1866 September 18, 1951) was an artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. Particularly through his iconoclastic little magazine, The…
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