Search Results: the listing attic by gorey edward

Abelard-Schuman, 1974. Soft cover. Acceptable. Curling covers with rubbed edges. One split in binding with corresponding crease in spine and a few loose pages. Bookstore ink stamp to half title page otherwise all text and illustrations are clean unmarked in excellent condition. 1974 Reprint of two works originally published in the 1950s.

London: Abelard-Schuman Ltd, 1974. Book. Near Very Good. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Small trade paperback. Yellow card covers with Gorey's distinctive artwork. Illustrated. "A reprint of two works by one the world's most celebrated cartoonists..." First British edition thus. No previous ownership marks. Moderate curl to front cover, per usual with this edition and two vertical creases to same. Else a clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy. Near very good. .

Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1954. Hardcover. Acceptable. First Edition. Gorey's secondbook Unmarked hardcover in unclipped jacket. Jacket is in two pieces; shows considerable wear missing several chips and worn along all edges. Hardcover is badli bumped at all 4 corners and a small tear at top of spine Boards are bright and clean.

ABELARD SCHUMAN LTD 1974 1ST (uk) EDIT P/B. Paperback. GOOD SMALL CREASE TO TOP OF BACK COVER FBBB; 9502 .

Hardback. Abelard. UK. 1974. Hardback in glazed, illustrated boards. First edition thus, of two stories in one volume, 'The Listing Attic' along with 'The Unstrung Harp' both of which were published separately in 1954 and 1953. Yellow boards are very good with light rub to bottom of spine otherwise complete. Spine is also very good and unfaded. Contents: name to front with short message and date and with old price crossed out otherwise the rest is clean and unmarked with Edward Gorey's black and white drawings throughout. Light age spots to edges of text block. Not exlib and packed and sent with care.

Abelard-Schuman. Good with no dust jacket. 1974. Paperback. 0200722905 . 7.0866141660 X 4.7244094440 X 0.5511811018 inches; 124 pages .

Illustrated by Edward Gorey

London, Abelard-Schuman Limited Publishers, 1974, 1974. Soft cover. Fine. Paperbound. First Edition thus. NearFine. Glossy and binding tight. Clean and unmarked. Very slight bump to bottom right corner. Pin prick size indentation bottom left front cover. Would be Fine if not for these very minor flaws.

London, UK: Abelard-Schuman, 1974. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First British Edition. Laminated pictorial paper-covered boards. Lightly bumped spine head, wear. Top text block edge starting to fox; edges tanning just starting to affect page margins. Internally clean, neat, bright and tight. No dust jacket; likely as issued. 12mo. A reprint of two works by one of the world's most celebrated cartoonists, eagerly awaited by the numerous Gorey fans in Britain and the Commonwealth. Illustrated throughout in black and white.

New York and Boston: Duell, Sloan And Pearce / Little Brown and Company. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Pictorial boards. Boards and extremities bumped and rubbed. Previous owner's bookplate on paste down endpaper. Dust jacket creased and rubbed with chips and tears.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce and Boston: Little Brown (1954). Stated First edition Toledano A2a; 12mo.; pictorial boards, hardcover; 64 unnumbered pages; black and white illustrations; includes 60 limericks, each with an illustration by Gorey; Author's second book; non-authorial gift-inscription on front free endpaper with sunned pages and heavily edge-rubbed boards else very good in an edgeworn, sunned and price-clipped dust jacket with the front flap completely detached but present.

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.

Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Gorey, Edward. Pictorial boards, very light wear on edges. Page edges are toned. Clean throughout. DJ bumped on top edge with a creases. Some tanning, not price clipped. In archival cover. First printing.

The Listing Attic, Duell Sloan Pearce / Little Brown, 1954, first edition, near fine in vg+ color wraparound pictorial dust-wrapper with a closed tear and crease to the upper margin of the rear dust-wrapper panel. The authors second book. Sixty original limericks, each with an original illustration.

New York / Boston: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce / Little, Brown, 1954. Stated First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Gorey. Sm 8vo. Illustrated boards. Dark green end papers. [unpaginated] SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by Edward Gorey on the title page: "For _____ 2 December 1966 Edward Gorey". Gorey has signed above his crossed through name. Toledano A2a. Slight wear to bottom edges, spine ends, and corners. Illustrated dust-jacket (with "$2.00" price intact) is chipped, with a short, closed tear at spine on front panel, and slight loss at top of front panel and at bottom of rear panel. Old tape reinforcement on back of dust-jacket, down spine. The stated first edition, in dust-jacket, of Gorey's second book, signed and inscribed by Gorey.

New York / Boston: Duell, Sloan and Pearce / Little, Brown and Company, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Very Good. Chipping, browning, a few short tears, small crease, to edges of jacket with a bit of loss, mostly along top edge. Not price clipped, faint shelfwear to book. A nice copy of Gorey's second book, signed by him on the title page. Toledano A2a Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 047075.

THE LISTING ATTIC, Duell, Sloan and Pearce / Little, Brown, 1954, first edition, fine in like color wraparound pictorial dust-wrapper with one short closed tear. The author/artists second book consisting of illustrations and limericks. This copy INSCRIBED by author Charles Beaumont on the front end-paper and dated Xmas 1954 (at time of publication) to his then agent Forrest Ackerman with an original bawdy limerick of his own.