The Edward Gorey Calendar for 1979
New York: Workman Publishing, 1978. First edition. Paperback. Metal ringbound 4to. A clean very good copy of Gorey's 1979 illustrated calendar. Includes the original printed envelope. More
New York: Workman Publishing, 1978. First edition. Paperback. Metal ringbound 4to. A clean very good copy of Gorey's 1979 illustrated calendar. Includes the original printed envelope. More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1963. First UK edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Hardbound volume. Lacking a dustwrapper. 222 pp. With numerous illustrations. SIGNED by the author and uncommon thus. Book is musty, else in fine condition. More
Washington DC: Counterpoint, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 165 pp. Stated first printing. A poetry collection. Quarter red cloth over boards. A fine copy in dustwrapper. Considered by many to be Snyder's magnum opus. More
New York: W. W. Norton, 1975. First edition. Paperback. Trade paperbound book. Simultaneous first paperbound edition. 71 pp. A handsome very good or better copy. This copy has been INSCRIBED by Hugo to fellow poet Sister Madeleine DeFrees (who is a dedicatee to a poem on page 44 of this..... More
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 190 pp. A collection of essays by the author of Rip Rap. A fine clothbound copy in lightly rubbed dustwrapper. Very nice copy. More
Chicago: Mirror Publishing, 1968. First edition. Paperback. 4to. Side-stapled wrappers. The Winter 1968 issue of htis early entry into the land of undergrounds with cover art by Peter Green. 14 pp. With contributions by Lynch and Skip Williamson. Light cover soiling. A very good example. Quite scarce these days... More
New York: Clovis Press, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Wide oblong hardbound book. Unpaginated. Illustrated cookbook with drawings by Gorey. No dustwrapper, as issued. A good copy with wear to boards and a tear to the last leaf which folds out from top to bottom. Reinforced library binding. An uncommon Gorey..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Square hardbound book in fold-out accordion format. Inspired by the "unexpected appearance of the ULUUS (thought to have been extinct for over a century) in the tunnel connecting East Shoetree and West Radish, St. Frumble's Day, 1892" Very good condition..... More
New York: Grove Press, 1958. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. Oatmeal cloth covers. Issued without dustwrapper. First Grove Press edition. 91 pp. Although not called for, this copy has been SIGNED by the author on the title page. Quite uncommon thus. Small bookstore sticker afixed to the rear pastedown. Oatmeal cloth..... More
New York: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster, 1979. Reprint. Paperback. Trade paperbound book. 237 pp. Reprint edition of her 1968 classic volume of essays. A fine copy. More
New York: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster, 1979. Reprint. Paperback. Trade paperbound book. 214 pp. Reprint edition of her 1970 classic volume of tales of life near the California freeways. A fine copy. More
Barrington: Lost Roads, 2000. Second edition. Paperback. Wide paperbound octavo. 383 pp. Reprint edition of Stanford's magnum opus. Published by C. D. Wright and the Estate of Frank Stanford. Preface by C. D. Wright. A near fine copy in thick bound photo-illustrated wrappers. Scratch to rear cover else almost new..... More
New York: Grove Press, 2006. First Thus. Hardcover. Four uniform octavos in slipcase. The works of Beckett edited by Paul Auster and with an introduction by Colm Toiben. Published as the Grove Press Centenary Edition. Fine copies in lightly dust-soiled hard slipcase. A large and heavy set of books... More
No Place: Black Sparrow Press, No Date. First edition. Loose Sheets. Large single sheet of paper, folded twice as issued. A promotional poster produced at Black Sparrow Press. 17 x 12" wide. A handsome near fine example. Photograph of Buk by Michael Montfort. More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Small oblong hardbound book in dustwrapper. Unpaginated. An illustrated book for children and adults by Gorey. Very good copy in price-intact dustwrapper. More
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. Clothbound book in dustwrapper. 312 pp. A literary analysis of Pychon's Gravity's Rainbow. Small stain to lower edge else a near fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Cloth spine over illustrated boards. First edition. 244 pp. A collection of short stories. Fine copy in clear acetate wrapper. #109 of 125 special copies SIGNED by the author. More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Cloth spine over illustrated paper-covered boards. 284 pp. Edited by and with an introduction by Gerald M. Lacy. A near fine example in clear acetate wrapper. Letter O of 26 special lettered copies with an original photograph of Lawrence tipped..... More
New York: Ivan Obolensky, Inc., 1961. First edition. Paperback. Small paperbound book. Unpaginated. In very good condition. Written and illustrated by Edward Gorey under this pseudonym. More
New York: Epstein & Carroll, 1960. First Hardcover Edition. Hardcover. First hardcover edition of the illustrator's uncommon fifth book (published a year earlier in limited quantity in softcover). Very good condition with some light soiling to front decorated board in very good price intact dustwrapper. Book measures only 3" by..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Hardbound 8vo in clear acetate wrapper. This copy labeled "Printer's Copy", is SIGNED by Vega and includes a separate tipped in page also signed and with original artwork.. A fine copy in lightly rubbed acetate wrapper. More
New York: New Directions, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. Burgundy cloth spine over patterned boards. 148 pp. One of one thousand copies printed. A handsome very good or better copy. Some edgewear to lower boards else a very clean handsome copy in price-intact dustwrapper. The author's first major..... More
New York: Charles Scribner, 1991. Second printing. Hardcover. Thick oblong hardbound volume in dustwrapper. 306 pp. With an introduction by Alistair Cooke. A survey of Hirschfeld's career in art illustration. Second printing. Internally clean and well bound. The dustwrapper flaps are adhered to the boards of the book. Sold in..... More
New York: Sperone Westwater, 2003. First edition. Cloth. 4to. Clothbound book in dustwrapper. 113 pp. Edited by Gian Enzo Sperone with an essay by Robert Rosenblum. Profusely illustrated in both color and black and white. A fine copy in near fine dustwrapper. Wrapper has a short horizontal scrape to the..... More