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 9025    Gorey, Edward; Neumeyer, Peter F.;Lear, Edward Gorey X 3 ; Drawings by Edward Gorey Addison-Wesley Pub Co 1976 0201025493 Soft cover First Edition Signed by Author(s) Contains The Jumblies; Dong with a Luminous Nose and Donald and the... Signed by Edward Gorey on title page in his customary fashion. Toledano B62. Near fine with slight bump to back cover at bottom edge. In Mylar sleeve. Rare. $275 Add to Cart

 8856    Gorey, Edward The Dwindling Party SIGNED Random House Childrens Books 1982 0394851293 Hardcover First Edition Signed by Author(s) First printing. Illustrated glossy boards, wraparound design. Six 2-page pop-up tableaus. Signed by Edward Gorey in his customary fashion over his name on first tableau. All pop-ups in working order. In custom-made red paper-covered slipcase. Toledano A83a. Both book and slipcase fine. Very rare with condition and signature. Unpaginated. $800 Add to Cart

 9520    Gorey, Edward; Malcolm Whyte Gorey World: Paintings, Drawings & Mysterious Objects Cartoon Art Museum 1996 Soft cover First Edition Signed by Author(s) Exhibition catelogue booklet in wraps. Square octavo. Art reproduced in B&W. Unnumbered copy, signed at rear colophon by Malcolm Whyte, who wrote the accompanying text. Fine in custom-made cardboard folder. 12 pp. $125 Add to Cart

 9536    Gorey, Edward The Haunted Tea-Cozy: A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas Harcourt 1998 0151004153 Hardcover First Edition Signed by Author(s) First printing. Illustrated boards, matching DJ. Signed on dedication page on pasted bookplate plate between text reading "Edward Gorey and "Harcourt Brace." Book fine; DJ near fine with price clipped. Unpaginated. $175 Add to Cart

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 7071    Blackmur, R.P. Form & Value in Modern Poetry Doubleday & Co. 1957 Soft cover First Edition First DD Anchor edition, 1957. Cover by Leonard Baskin, typography by Edward Gorey. Near fine copy with light soil to cover. 388 pp. $15 Add to Cart

 6812    Chandler, Raymond The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler and English Summer: A Gothic Romance Ecco Press 1976 0912946334 Hardcover First Edition Maroon cloth, gilt titles. Edited by Frank McShane, illustrated by Edward Gorey. Toledano B63a. Book near fine with top edge soil. DJ very good with sunning to spine, minor soil, crease to flap. Price of $10 intact. 113 pp. $65 Add to Cart

 3443    Gorey, Edward The Unstrung Harp: Or Mr Earbrass Writes a Novel Harcourt 1999 0151004358 Hardcover First Thus First printing of this re-issue. No DJ. Unread, as new. Unpaginated. $25 Add to Cart

 2548    Gorey, Edward The Epiplectic Bicycle Harcourt Brace 1997 0151003149 Hardcover Second Edition First printing. Near new, with illustrated boards, no DJ. Unpaginated. $15 Add to Cart

 2549    Gorey, Edward The Doubtful Guest Harcourt Brace 1985 0151003130 Hardcover Second Edition First printing. Illustrated boards, no DJ as issued. Unread, near new but with a box-cutter knife mark on front. Unpaginated. $20 Add to Cart

 7669    Gorey, Edward The Headless Bust : A Melancholy Meditation for the False Millennium Harcourt 1999 0151005141 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Gorey's final book, featuring the cast of "A Haunted Tea Cosy." Illustrated boards, matching DJ. Fine in near-fine price-clipped DJ in Mylar. Unpaginated. $55 Add to Cart

 7776    Gorey, Edward The Iron Tonic : Or, a Winter Afternoon in Lonely Valley Harcourt 2000 0151004374 Hardcover First Thus Illustrated boards, no DJ as issued. First printing of this (trade) edition. Unread, as new. Unpaginated. $25 Add to Cart

 8067    Gorey, Edward The Awdrey-Gore Legacy Beaufort Books Publishers 1987 0825304040 Hardcover First Edition First printing of this edition (Toledano A45d). Illustrated boards, matching DJ. Contains The Toastrack Enigma, The Blancmange Tragedy and The Postcard Mystery. Near fine with a few spots to ffep. DJ likewise near fine with minor wear. Unpaginated. $100 Add to Cart

 8260    Gorey, Edward The Wuggly Ump Pomegranate Artbooks 9780764941924 Hardcover First Thus Presumed first printing thus. Yellow illustrated binding, matching DJ. Unread, as new in pub's shrinkwrap. 32 pp. $35 Add to Cart

 8972    Gorey, Edward Amphigorey Again Harcourt 2006 0151011079 Hardcover First Edition First printing (A). Decorative stamped title-block binding, matching DJ. Collects 28 stories and other work, two selections of which (The Izzard Book and La Malle Saignante) are previously unpublished. Unread, as new in like DJ. Already scarce. Unpaginated. $100 Add to Cart

 9019    Gorey, Edward The Unstrung Harp; or, Mr Earbrass Writes a Novel Duell, Sloan & Pearce/Little, Brown 1953 Hardcover First Edition Pictorial paper boards, matching DJ. Stated first edition. The author's first book. Book very good minus, with evidence of waterstains at foreedge and endmatter; text block mostly unaffected. One page has creasemark at top foreedge corner, boards worn at edges and corners. DJ also VG-minus with equivalent watermarks at panel edges, wear to spine-ends and folds, two small wrinkle-tears. Price of $2.00 intact. Becoming rare. Unpaginated. $150 Add to Cart

 9026    Gorey, Edward The Willowdale Handcar or The Return of The Black Doll Bobbs Merrill 1962 Soft cover First Edition Original edition (Toledano A10a) in tan wraps with $1.50 cover price. Very good with crease to front cover at spine, light stain on ffep at foreedge, lightly sunned at spine. Newspaper clipping of Gorey's Broadway debut with sets for Dracula laid in. Unpaginated. $45 Add to Cart

 9028    Gorey, Edward The Fatal Lozenge Ivan Obolensky 1961 Soft cover First Edition First issue with $1.25 cover price (Toledano A6a). Very good minus with spotting to inside cover, evidence of waterstain to lower half of cover and centerfold. Unpaginated. $35 Add to Cart

 9030    Gorey, Edward The Sopping Thursday Capricorn Press 1971 Soft cover First Edition First trade edition after the Gotham Book Mart limited editions, Toledano A35c.. Cover price of $2.50. In white wrappers that are soiled at edges. Text block near fine. Unpaginated. $45 Add to Cart

 9527    Gorey, Edward The Dwindling Party Random House Childrens Books 1982 0394851293 Hardcover First Edition First edition, first printing. Illustrated glossy boards, wraparound design. Six 2-page pop-up tableaus. Book very good, with pop-ups in working order with a few creases to several. On the penultimate tableau , there is light spotting to the blue (sky) areas. Unpaginated. $125 Add to Cart

 10132    Gorey, Edward The Unstrung Harp: Or Mr Earbrass Writes a Novel Harcourt 1999 0151004358 Hardcover First Thus Illustrated binding, matching DJ. First printing thus. Unread, as new in like DJ. Unpaginated. $15 Add to Cart

 8572    Gorey, Edward; McDermott, Kevin Elephant House Or, the Home of Edward Gorey Pomegranate 2003 0764924958 Hardcover First Edition Assumed first printing. Grey cloth binding, decorative endpapers. Oblong quarto. Illustrations in color and B&W. Unread, as new in like DJ in pub's shrinkwrap. Unpaginated. $55 Add to Cart

 9024    Gorey, Edward; Ogdred Weary The Curious Sofa Ivan Obolensky 1968 Soft cover Reprint Gorey Festival reprint with no cover price in pink wrappers. Toledano A7d. Very good plus copy with owner-signed inside front cover. Scarcer than first printing. Unpaginated. $50 Add to Cart

 6632    Gorey, Edward; Victoria Chess Fletcher and Zenobia Save the Circus Dodd, Mead 1971 0396064159 Hardcover First Edition No printing statement, presumed first printing (Zempel). Pictorial paper boards, matching DJ. Spot illustrations in B&W, color illustrations full-page. Very good with spotting to top edges. DJ priced $4.95 also very good with some age-darkening and two small chips. 63 pp. $95 Add to Cart

 6873    Halpern, Daniel, ed. Antaeus 23 Antaeus 1976 Soft cover 1st Edition Autumn, 1976. Featured: Raymond Chandler's English Summer, illustrated by Edward Gorey (Toledano B63a). Also: fiction by Leslie Epstein, poetry by Louise Gluck, Charles Simic, Gregory Orr, W.S. Merwin, Muriel Rukeyser, others. Unread, near fine with sunning to cover at spine. 199 pp. $75 Add to Cart

 6987    Halpern, Daniel, ed. Antaeus: The Final Issue 75/76 Antaeus 1994 Soft cover 1st Edition Featuring new work by Stephen King (Blind Willie), Nadine Gordimer, Joyce Carol Oates, Edward Gorey (Serious Life). Also, excerpts from the pre-election notebook of Bill Clinton, an open letter from Paul Bowles, the unpublished opening of The Sun Also Rises, fiction and poetry by most of the notable writers of our time. Unread, near new with a remainder mark to bottom edge. 409 pp. $55 Add to Cart

 9027    Heide, Florence Parry; Edward Gorey The Shrinking of Treehorn Holiday House 1971 0823401898 Hardcover First Edition Second issue, with no price on DJ and review quotes on back DJ flap (Toledano B51b). Very good copy in reinforced binding with spotting to top edges of leaves and cloth. Text block near fine. DJ also very good plus. Unpaginated. $45 Add to Cart

 8854    Kaye, Marvin, Ed. Ghosts: A Treasury of Chilling Tales Old & New Doubleday & Co. 1981 0385185065 Hardcover First Edition Stated first edition. Dark grey binding, white titles. A collection of 54 classic and modern stories, with authors from Charles Dickens and Ambrose Bierce to Edward D. Hoch and Isaac Asimov. Very good unread copy with some spots (coffee?) at top edge. DJ, designed by Edward Gorey, also very good with minor edgewear, price clipped. 652 pp. $50 Add to Cart

 9020    Neumeyer, Peter F.;Gorey, Edward Donald Has a Difficulty Harry N Abrams Inc 2004 0810948354 Hardcover Reprint Illustrated glossy boards, matching DJ. Third printing of this edition. Reinforced binding. Unread, as new in like DJ. Upaginated. $20 Add to Cart

 9021    Neumeyer, Peter F.;Gorey, Edward Donald and The... Harry N Abrams Inc 2004 0810948362 Hardcover Reprint Illustrated boards, matching DJ. Third printing of this edition. Reinforced binding. Unread, as new in like DJ. Unpaginated. $20 Add to Cart

 9537    Rees, Ennis More of Brer Rabbit's Tricks Edward Gorey Young Scott Books 1968 Hardcover First Edition Oblong quarto. Illustrated boards, matching DJ. Toledano B39a. Color illustrations by Gorey on every page. Book near fine; DJ very good plus with light wrinkle-crease at top back panel. Price of $3.95 intact. Scarce in good condition. 42 pp. $150 Add to Cart

 8068    Ross, Clifford; Edward Gorey Phantasmagorey: The Work of Edward Gorey Yale University 1974 Soft cover First Edition First edition (Toledano p176). Exhibition catalogue in wrappers. Most plates B&W; 3 in color. Tall octavo. Exhibition catalogue. Very good with minor sunning to wraps at spine; a few small bleach spots.Text block near fine with a tiny bump at foreedge. Scarce. 28 pp. $100 Add to Cart