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New York: San Diego; London: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Edward Gorey. White & red lettering on black covers. 16mo.

New York: Astor-Honor, Inc., 1968. Classic of implied Edwardian kink, replete with well-shaped gentleman, intriguing devices, and unsavoury practices. Reprint, issued as one of four in the boxed set titled "A Gorey Festival". Shows some rubbing, evident erasure of pencil mark on front cover, faint creasing; text & illustrations clean & unmarked. . Reprint. Paperback. Good. Illus. by Edward Gorey. 4¾" by 6".

New York: Astor-Honor, 1968. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. This is the "Gorey Festival" edition from Astor-Honor. Near fine in wraps.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1989. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine. First edition thus, firts printing, letter line beginning with "A". 5 1/2" x 6" in three-color illustrated boards. A fine, fresh, apparently unused example ; issued without dust jacket. Unpaginated (60 pp.). Collection of drawings by Edward Gorey who published this work under an anagram of his name. It first appeared in 1961(an almost unobtainable edition) where it was subtitled a "pornographic illustrated history about furniture." ; despite the title there is nothing overtly sexual in the darwings. Gorey instead used innuendo and strategically placed objects like urns, tree branches, robes, etc.

London: Bloomsbury, 1999. First UK Edition. Hardcover. As New. Duodecimo. Edward Gorey. Original illustrated boards. A clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Astor-Honor, Inc., 1968. Classic of implied Edwardian kink, replete with well-shaped gentleman, intriguing devices, and unsavoury practices. Reprint, issued as one of four in the boxed set titled "A Gorey Festival". Shows light rubbing, hint of crease to rear cover; text & illustrations clean & unmarked. . Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Edward Gorey. 4¾" by 6".

Ivan Obolensky (1961). First edition; 16mo.; pictorial stiff wraps, softcover; black and white illustrations; wraps are heavily rubbed, creased and edgeworn with some internal soiling, fair.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company [0-15-100307-6] 1997. (hardcover) [unpaginated]. Fine. Issued without dust jacket. 16mo. Casebound. Unblemished. Bright and clean. With Gorey's delightful illustrations throughout. A deliciously irreverent work. First printing of this edition, with full letter line on copyright page..

Ivan Obolensky, 1961. Softcover. Very good/No jacket. Edward Gorey. First edition. Some shelfwear.

NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1980. First edition of this reissued edition, Toledano A7e; 16mo; pictorial boards; hardcover; black and white illustrations; very good in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket.

Illustrated by Edward Gorey

N Y: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1980. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. Signed by Author. Signed ""Ogred Weary"" on title page. Limited edition, #83/212. The black over is worn at corners and top and bottom of spine, showing the white underneath. Previous owner's name inside. The dust jacket has many small tears, edge wear, tape, and a sticker on the back. Much romping and frolicking between Alice and several extraordinarily well-formed men, amongst others. 1980 re-issue, ""First Printing"" (first edition thus, first printed in 1961). Small format: 5 1/4"" w x 6 1/2""h.

New York: Ivan Obolensky, 1961. Classic of implied Edwardian kink, replete with well-shaped gentleman, intriguing devices, and unsavoury practices. SIGNED by Gorey, as Weary, on the title page. Second state of the first edition, with publisher's $1.75 price sticker. Thin paperback, as pictured. Shows some rubbing, creases near the spine, hint of curling to corners; text & illustrations clean & unmarked. . Signed by Author/Illustrator. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Illus. by Edward Gorey. 5" by 6¼".