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Goops and How to Be Them: A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants Inculcating Many Juvenile Virtues Both by Precept and Example with Ninety Drawings by Burgess, Gelett - 1928

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Goops and How to Be Them: A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants Inculcating Many Juvenile Virtues Both by Precept and Example with Ninety Drawings by Burgess, Gelett - 1928

Goops and How to Be Them: A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants Inculcating Many Juvenile Virtues Both by Precept and Example with Ninety Drawings

by Burgess, Gelett

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Philadelphia/New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1928. 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. Burgess, Gelett. Delightful little creatures demonstrate manners in charming, easy-to-remember rhymes, illustrated on every page by the author. Originally written in 1900, this is the 39th printing of the 1928 edition, which maintains all 74 of the original illustrations & rhymes. Hardcover book has light yellow cloth-covered boards decorated with brown lettering & images. Condition is VG: extremely clean, binding tight & square, pages off-white, but NO foxing. NO writing, highlighting or underlining; NOT ex-lib. Flaws: lightly bumped corners, former owner's bookplate inside front cover. The unclipped DJ (with orig. $2.75 price intact) is downgraded to only Good due to minor edgewear all around, including some small chips & tears. Nicely protected in new archival mylar cover FREE! Please see our photos--they show the exact book you will receive from us, never "stock" images! Description & photos copyright Gargoyle Books 2020. Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); Weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

  • Bookseller Gargoyle Books US (US)
  • Illustrator Burgess, Gelett
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good+
  • Jacket Condition Good
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  • Edition 5th or later Printing
  • Binding Hardcover
  • ISBN 10 0517163306
  • ISBN 13 9780517163306
  • Publisher J. B. Lippincott Company
  • Place of Publication Philadelphia/New York
  • Date Published 1928
  • Pages 62
  • Keywords manners etiquette children vintage Goops lessons parents child illustrated illustrations creatures humor

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GOOPS AND HOW TO BE THEM

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Avenel Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 0517163306 . ; Blue cover is rubbed at corners and spine caps otherwise pristine. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and pristine. Book has never been cracked open. Dust jacket has modest shelf rubbing but near pristine. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ) .
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