Goops and How to Be Them, A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants Inculcating Many Juvenile Vitrues Both by Precept and Example with Ninety Drawings
- Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1928
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1928. [JUVENILE] [ETIQUETTE] [RHYMING VERSE]. Thirty-fourth impression. Small 4to; yellow buckram over board, stamped pictorial of a man and woman with two goops and lettering on the front, lettering on spine; vignette of three goops on title page; unclipped dust jacket, chipping at edges; fine in very good plus dj. A clever and humorous basic etiquette book for children covering child-rearing subjects. Chapters include table manners, cleanliness, neatness, courtesy, generosity, consideration, borrowing, books, honesty, bed-time, bravery, patience, politeness, and other important subjects. Advice is presented with humorous line drawings and light-hearted rhyming verse. The author, Gelett Burgess (1866-1951), was an artist, poet, and humorist.
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Title
Goops and How to Be Them, A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants Inculcating Many Juvenile Vitrues Both by Precept and Example with Ninety Drawings
Author
BURGESS, Gelett
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Publisher
J.B. Lippincott Company: Philadelphia and New York
Date
1928