Beschreibung:

GOREY, EDWARD Collection of eleven titles, including four signed or inscribed. The signed titles comprise: The Gilded Bat. New York: Peter Weed, [1966]. First edition, signed. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Short tears to jacket; The Sinking Spell. Zurich: Diogenes, [1975]. Reprint edition, signed. Publisher's printed paper wrappers. Pale stain to upper wrapper, else fine; The Betrayed Confidence. Orleans, Massachusetts: Parnassus Imprints, [1992]. Later edition, signed. Publisher's pictorial wrappers. Slight creasing to corners, else fine; The Loathsome Couple. New York: Peter Weed, [1993]. First printing of reissued edition, inscribed. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Small chips to jacket; The unsigned books include The Unstrung Harp. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce and Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1953]. First edition of Gorey's first book. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Jacket toned with a few chips, light toning and scattered foxing throughout; two copies of The Listing Attic. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce and Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1954]. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Both with toned and chipped jackets, toned throughout; The Utter Zoo. New York: Meredith Press, [1967]. First edition. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Jacket toned with some marginal chipping, endpapers lightly foxed; The Doubtful Guest. London: Putnam, 1958. First UK edition (and first of Gorey's books to be published in UK). Publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Slight lean, minor soiling to jacket with some toning to edges; The Willowdale Handcar or the Return of the Black Doll. Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., [1962]. First edition. Publisher's pictorial wrappers. Wrappers creased with some edgewear and one or two spots; and The Vinegar Works. Three Volumes of Moral Instruction. The Gashlycrumb Tinies; The Insect God; The West Wing. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963. First printing. Three volumes. Publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards in original pictorial slipcase. Slipcase rubbed with some wear to corners, boards rubbed and toned but interiors clean and bright. The lot eleven titles. (11) C Property of a Maine Collector