Drawing entitled The Boy who Borrowed Trouble,” depicting a boy on a sled, with a four-line poem

by Frederick Burr Opper

$450 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

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Pen-and-ink on paper, signed “Frederick B. Opper” . 4to 21.6 x 26.7 cm . Mounted to larger sheet. Docketed by copy editor, edges a bit ragged, image and text unaffected. Item #300018 Opper was one of the true pioneers of Amrican newspaper cartoons, and the creator of “The Happy Hooligan”.

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