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THE LISTING ATTIC by Edward Gorey.
by Gorey, Edward
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Cadyville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce / Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1954)., (1954).. Very good. - Octavo, 7-1/2 inches high by 5 inches wide. Hardcover, pictorial boards featuring an illustration by Gorey, titled in black on the front cover and on the spine. The book is laid into a matching price-clipped dust wrapper with a self-portrait by Gorey on the rear panel. The corners and head and tail of the book's spine are rubbed. There are a couple of tiny tears to the top edge of the dust jacket with minor rubbing to the folds. The top of the jacket's inner flaps are darkened. Unpaginated, with sixty limericks each with a black & white illustration by Edward Gorey. Very good.
First edition, so stated. [Toledano A2a].
The second book by Edward Gorey.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 97909
- Title
- THE LISTING ATTIC by Edward Gorey.
- Author
- Gorey, Edward
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce / Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1954).
- Date Published
- (1954).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ILLUSTRATED; EDWARD GOREY; THE LISTING ATTIC; FIRST EDITION; AUTHORS SECOND BOOK; ILLUSTRATIONS; LITERATURE; LIMERICK; TOLEDANO A2A; MACABRE; SELF-PORTRAIT; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; 20TH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated;
Terms of Sale
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Payment with order from individuals. Items are offered subject to prior sale. All purchases are subject to your approval, returnable within 10 days. New York State residents please add sales tax to your purchases. All items are guaranteed authentic and as described.
About the Seller
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Biblio member since 2003
Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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