AMPHIGOREY ALSO
First edition of the third collection of Gorey's works of alphabetical menace, including THE UTTER ZOO, THE BLUE ASPIC, THE BROKEN SPOKE, THE GLORIOUS NOSEBLEED, and more.
First edition of the third collection of Gorey's works of alphabetical menace, including THE UTTER ZOO, THE BLUE ASPIC, THE BROKEN SPOKE, THE GLORIOUS NOSEBLEED, and more.
Signed first edition of this unusually minimalist Gorey picture book of stick figures in troubling postures, captioned in French.
Signed miniature panorama, illustrated with orange highlights by Gorey.
Scarce signed first edition of this book of short prose writings — with a lovely design by Gorey and his charming very small signature, along with an inscription by Elliott.
Uncommon first paperback printing, a special edition issued for attendees of the 1979 American Booksellers Association convention in Los Angeles.
First US edition, with Gorey-illustrated jacket — about a conference of famous fictional investigators who attempt to solve the mystery in Dickens's incomplete novel, THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD.
Uncommon third Swiss edition of Gorey's CURIOUS SOFA, acquiring an additional layer of obscure and unnamable European perversity in German translation.
Lettered copy of the doubly signed limited first edition of Elliott's debut, with a cover illustration of a burning cruciform box by Edward Gorey.
First edition of this selection of nonsense verse by the eminent Dante translator, illustrated by Gorey with only intermittent menace.
First edition of this second collaboration between Ciardi and Gorey, a book of read-aloud poems on subjects dear to most children's hearts: eels, bears, "Still More About Bears," and sharks.
First edition of this collection of satirical verse, including the 1973 "Love Song of R. Milhous Nixon," for which Gorey created a charming introductory page but whose central subject was too grotesque for even Gorey to illustrate directly.
Signed limited first edition of this singular abecedarian picture book, in which a white dog and a black sun traverse interior landscapes like tiny stage settings.
First edition of this Gorey reference book, featuring an interview with Edward Gorey and an analysis of his art.
First edition of this adorably macabre picture book for older readers featuring a boy whose imagination is stimulated by reading lots of comic books.
First edition, review copy with publisher's slip laid in, of this collection of humorous verses revolving around a family whose growing number of children increase the household chaos.
First trade edition of this picture book of verses inspired in part from early English children's books of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, first published as a miniature fine press limited edition in 1983.
Signed limited first edition of this late Gorey book of quietly alarming verses, featuring images in color as opposed to Gorey's more typical black and white.
First printing of Gorey's alphabetical menagerie of unusual creatures, a rather Seussian premise but with a uniquely Gorey execution.
The scarce third installment of Gorey's three-book series issued by Fantod between 1966 and 1973.
First printing of this Edward Gorey work, published under the anagrammatic pseudonym Ogdred Weary.
Signed limited first edition set, one of 250 signed and numbered by Gorey, complete with all 16 original postcards and original pictorial envelope.
Signed first edition of this adorably macabre picture book for older readers featuring a boy whose imagination is stimulated by reading lots of comic books.
Signed limited first edition thus, an out of sequence copy not signed or numbered on the limitation page, but instead signed by Gorey on the title page.
Signed limited first edition, one of only 300 numbered copies, sequel to the riveting and suspenseful THE PRUNE PEOPLE told only through pictures.