The Goops books, originally published between 1900 and 1950, were created by the artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist Gelett Burgess. The characters debuted, conceptually, in the illustrations of Burgess' publication The Lark, in the late 19th century. The Goops also appeared in panels in the popular monthly children's publication St. Nicholas, as early as 1898. The Goops series is among his most famous works.
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The Goops books, originally published between 1900 and 1950, were created by the artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist Gelett Burgess. The characters debuted, conceptually, in the illustrations of Burgess' publication The Lark, in the late 19th century. The Goops also appeared in panels in the popular monthly children's publication St. Nicholas, as early as 1898. The Goops series is among his most famous works.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good in Very Good jacket. Pictorial yellow cloth, 4to, not paginated, illustrated by Gelett Burgess throughout; a few blue ink splotches on endpapers; price clipped dust jacket is a bit rubbed now in mylar. From the dust jacket: A reissue-"by popular request of the best grandmothers"-of the Goop book which contains many of the funniest and most useful of Gelett Burgess's famous rhymes. 0.
