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
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Cooper's Creek (Signed)
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
The Practice of the Wild
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
Son of the Martini Cookbook
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
The Tunnel Calamity
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
Endgame (Signed); A Play In One Act followed by Act Without Words A Mime for One Player
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
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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
Play It As It Lays
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
Four Volume Set of Books in Slipcase (Volume I Novels / Volume II Novels / Volume III Dramatic Works / Volume IV Poems, Short Fiction, Criticism) Centenary Edition
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
The Wuggly Ump
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
The Style of Connectedness; Gravity's Rainbow and Thomas Pynchon
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
A Brief History of Camouflage (Signed)
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
Letters To Thomas & Adele Seltzer (Lettered Edition with Photograph)
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
The Curious Sofa; A Pornographic Work
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
The James Joyce Review Vol.1 No. 1 through Vol. 3 No. 1 and 2 (Eight Issues in 6 Volumes)
New York: The James Joyce Review, 1957 - 1959. First edition. Paperback. Stapled printed wrappers. Sold here together are the first eight issues of this magazine deovted to the writings of James Joyce. Published in six volumes. Volume i includes Joyce's essay "James Clarence Mangan". All issues in handsome very..... More
The Very Fine Clock
New York: Alfred Knopf, 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. Oblong hardbound book in dustwrapper. Unpaginated. Spark's first book for children. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. No edition or printings noted on copyright page. Very good condition in faded and somewhat worn price-intact dustwrapper. More
From An Abandoned Work (Signed)
London: Faber & faber, 1958. First edition. Paperback. Thin octavo. 22 pp. First edition. A most handsome near fiine example. SIGNED by the author on the title page. A book rarely found signed or inscribed. More
Waiting For Godot
London: Faber & Faber, 1956. First UK edition. Cloth. 8vo. Yellow cloth covers printed in red at spine. First UK edition with Publisher's Note tipped on to the page following the copyright page. 94 pp. Some darkening and offset to endpapers else a particularly bright and clean copy. The price-intact..... More
The Maze Maker
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1967. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. Clothbound book in dustwrapper. 320 pp. An "autobiography" of Daedalus. A gorgeous fine copy in equally attractive dustwrapper. First edition, first printing. With blurbs by Morris West, Mary Renault and William Golding. More
Look and Move On; An Autobiography as told to Paul Bowles
London: Peter Owen, 1989. First UK edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 125 pp. Hardbound book in dustwrapper. Small bookseller price sticker afixed to the inside front pastedown else a handsome very good example in dustwrapper. Wrapper has a short tear at the base of the front panel. More
This Flower Only Blooms Every Hundred Years (Signed Lettered Edition)
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Special decorated cloth spine over boards. 128 pp. Special limited first edition, Letter U of 26 copies SIGNED by the author. A collection of short fiction. Fine copy in clear acetate wrapper. More
The Complete Calvin & Hobbes (Three Volume Set in Slipcase)
Kansas City: Andrews McNeel, 2005. First edition. Paperback. Complete set of the cartoons and comic genius of Bill Watterson in three large oblong hardbound quartos housed in a hard illustrated slipcase. All in as-new condition. Very heavy set of books. Please inquire about shipping rates for this item. All three..... More
A Far Cry From Kensington (Signed Limited Edition)
London: Constable, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter cloth spine over decorated boards. Issued without dustwrapper. A handsome near fine copy. One of only 150 specially bound copies thus and SIGNED by the author. 189 pp. More
Equal Distance (Two States of the Uncorrected Proof)
New York: Alfred Knopf, 1985. First edition. Paperback. Sold here together are the two states of the Uncorrected Proof of Equal Distance: The first state in green wrappers (306 pp) and the second state in cream wrappers (350 pp.) Both in very good or better condition. More
Collected Essays / Early Novels & Stories / Later Novels
New York: Library of America, 1998 and 2015. Edition Unknown. Hardcover. 8vo's. Three volume set of books reprinting the novels and essays of writer James Baldwin. All three books are in fine, unread condition, still in original shrinkwrap. We have not removed the shrinkwrap to determine which printings these books..... More