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Paris: J. -J. Dubochet, Le Chevalier et cie, 1846. 1/4 Leather. Good +. 12mo. 1595 pp. + 37 pp. index. 1/4 Burgundy leather under cloth, gilt titling. Marbled endpapers. Scuffing and edgewear to boards, heaviest at spine ends and corners. Pos signature to fep, dated 1849. Fold-out chart of chart of chemical equivalents, by Leon Lalanne in tact. Illustrated throughout. Reference tome to use as a universal memory aid for Sciences, Arts and Letters.

New York: New Directions, 1954. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 12mo. 107 pp. Rust colored cloth w/ white titling. Lacking jacket. First edition. Faint rubbing to cloth at spine ends and corners of boards. Discoloration at front hinge, POs name "M. J. Maxson" to ffep. Otherwise sound. Radio play about the dreams and thoughts of the inhabitants of a fictional Welsh town, Llareggub.

New York: Knickerbocker Publications, Inc, 1945. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. 126 pp. Illustrated paper wraps. Some sunning to wraps and tearing to front joint at spine foot. Light chipping to corners and edges, general signs of handling and wear. Previous owner's notation in brown ink ("Bring Back") to top of title page, small faint stain below. Text block toned but clean, with slight bibliochor. "When a Wife Philanders" - after overhearing a woman's voice during a phone call with her husband, Jinny responds by promptly "breaking up all the crockery within arm's reach and then accepting Doug Kelly's invitation to sin.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover in DJ. Very Good+/Very Good. 12mo. Unpaginated [64 pp]. Pictorial boards in clipped dust jacket. First edition. Signed by Gorey on title page. Light edgewear to dj, w/ two small [< 1cm] closed tears to rear panel. Rubbing to board edges. Bookseller's label to rpd from "The Holliday Bookshop, 119 East 54th ST, New York 22, N.Y." Tight, sound copy of Gorey's first independent work.