New York: Peter Weed Books, 1986. Reprint. Signed by Edward Gorey on the title page. Near Fine, with lean to spine, in a Near Fine un-clipped dust jacket, lightly soiled and lightly spine-faded. A nice copy, signed by Edward Gorey. Toledano A3e. More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1905. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's brown cloth stamped in black, grey red and gilt, with photographic onlay to front cover; top edges gilt. Near Fine with light rubbing at tips, light rubbing to black stamping on spine. Previous owner details in... More
New York / Boston: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce / Little, Brown, 1953. First edition, first printing. Very Good with light edge wear, pages toned. In a Very Good dust jacket with publisher's price of $2.00 intact, light edge wear with several short closed tears. A lovely copy of Edward Gorey's first published book. More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1988. Signed in red ink on verso of front cover, filling it with a cartoon of Binky from Life in Hell above that proffering, "Voila!" Dated 11/11/88 when Groening was working on Simpsons shorts for the Tracey Ullman Show. Unpaginated. Staplebound illustrated wraps. Fourth printing. A.... More
London & Cambridge: Macmillan & Co., 1863. First edition, first printing. First issue with "L'Envoy" leaf present. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt, brown coated endsheets. Good. Cloth worn at corners and spine ends, with frayed started at the rear joint. Cloth lightly rubbed, with front... More
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition, first printing. First issue with the headline on page 1 in rustic type, the woodcut of Mr. Steyne on page 336 which was later suppressed, and "Mr. Pitt" for "Sir Pitt" on page 453; bound without ads. Finely bound in somewhat contemporary three-quarter... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First edition. Copy #5 of limited 500 numbered copies with an original painting by Charles Bukowski tipped in, also signed by him on the limitation page. Near Fine, with light toning to covers, in a Very Good chipped and torn acetate wrapper, which may... More
Sutton West & Santa Barbara: The Pagent Press, 1986. First edition, signed, author's copy. Deluxe edition marked "Author's Copy," with an original black felt ink drawing by Bukowski on a folded single sheet, laid into pink folder sleeve at front endpaper, as issued. Signed by Bukowski at rear, along with... More
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1885. First edition, first issue. (The first American edition in cloth. All definitive points present: p. 9 has "Decided" instead of "Decides"; p. 13 lists illustration on p. 88 "Him and another Man"; p. 57 error "with the was" 11 lines up from... More
New York: Albondocani Press, 1983. First edition, copy #172 of a limited 400 numbered copies [issued alongside 26 lettered copies], signed by Edward Gorey on the limitation page. Hand-sewn wraps. A Fine copy, with publisher's. prospectus laid in. A beautiful copy. More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1992. First edition, limited issue with a signed color print at front, and signature in black with a doodle of himself with a jug on rear colophon, numbered in red, one of only 225 such copies. (Krumhansl 129d.) Fine in unprinted acetate jacket. Light rubbing... More
