New York: Pollard & Moss, 1885. New Edition. Hardcover. 183pp. Quarto [33.5 cm] Brown cloth over boards with elaborate lettering and stamping in gilt and black on the spine and front cover. All edges gilt. Ex-library (with the usual markings including duodecimal numbers on spine). Legitimately deaccessioned. The front hinge..... More
New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. No additional printings are listed on the copyright page. 176pp. Quarto [30 cm] Mustard yellow cloth over boards with elaborate lettering and stamping in gilt and black on the spine and front cover. Ex-library (duodecimal numbers on spine and ink stamp..... More
London: The Bodley Head, 1984. Hardcover. 119; [8]pp. Bound in beige cloth with gilt stamped title on spine. Boards blocked with a Sendak illustration of a Punchinello figure. Faint soiling to boards. Lacking acetate jacket. A conversation between the director (Corsaro) and the set and costume designer (Sendak) of the..... More
San Francisco: Pomegranate, 1998. Reprint. Hardcover. Oblong octavo [17 cm x 22 cm] White and black illustrated paper over boards. In the matching dust jacket, very attractive, and with only several minor traces of soiling. From the publisher- "The Sopping Thursday is unlike any other Edward Gorey Book, both because..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First and Second Printing before Publication. Hardcover. 79pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Orange and black pictorial paper over boards. Light wear at the spine ends and corners of the covers. Top quarter of the rear board discolored. Text block just begining to crack at p...... More
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Duodecimo [19cm]. Illustrated paper over boards. Mild scuffing to spine ends and foot of boards. In a dust jacket with a 3cm x 4.5cm loss to front panel, and a 2cm closed tear. The first book written by Edward..... More
Santa Cruz, CA: Flesk Publications, 2021. Gary Gianni. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. 108pp. Octavo [24cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Over a hundred finished pencil drawings with color pieces enhance and bring to life the work of two visionaries Lovecraft and Gianni in an extraordinary feat of storytelling and art." More
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2014. First edition thus. Hardcover. 55pp. Quarto [26cm].1/4 gray cloth over illustrated boards. Title stamped in black ink on spine. Wendell Berry's poetry beautifully accented with wood engravings by Wesley Bates. More
Zürich: Limmat Verlag Genossenschaft, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Folio [32 cm] White and black paper over boards. The boards are soiled and slightly warped. Internally clean. German text. May require extra postage due to weight, particularly if being shipped outside of the United States. Josef Carl Meffert, whose nom de..... More