THE OOGLEY OO

by Gerald Sichel, S. C. Woodhouse

$325 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

First edition

London and New York: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Lim., and E. P. Dutton & Co., circa 1903 . First edition of the strange little story of OOGLEY OO, the turnip-headed boy. Very good plus. Item #17171 OOGLEY OO seems to be as much an imitation of the DUMPY BOOK series as it is a parody; the take-away moral of the story is, amusingly, that a child should be good and cute so people buy them more picture books.

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