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(Brewster, MA: Atelier Emily Trevor). Original etching. One of 95 copies, signed by Gorey. The image features a gymnastic elephant balanced on his front legs, his ears waving gracefully behind him. Elephants held special meaning for Gorey, who named his house Elephant House, after an elephant-shaped toilet he found on...

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NY: Albondocani Press, 1971. First edition. One of twenty-six lettered copies, signed by Gorey. An ironic tale, illustrated Gorey's characteristic drawings. What happened to the little girl was not very nice, but then again, neither was she. Some slight fading to spine and the faintest trace of soil to front...

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(Brewster, MA: Atelier Emily Trevor). One of 50 copies, of which this is one of 40 printed during Gorey's lifetime and signed by him. An etching featuring Gorey's original character, the figbash, which first appeared in The Raging Tide, or, the Black Doll's Imbroglio. The figbash is shown here with...

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(Carrollton, OH: Press on Scroll Road, 2007). Quarto. xv, (21)pp. One of 60 copies. A book of thirteen poems by Irish poet Peter Fallon, with three color illustrations by Carol Blinn, title-page calligraphy by Jerry Kelly, and a foreword by Wendell Berry. Bound by Priscilla Spitler in marbled paper-covered boards...

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NY: Targ Editions, 1982. First edition. One of 250 copies. With a signed frontispiece by Gorey, and colophon signed by the author, D. R. Bensen. Bound in purple cloth with a translucent glassine dust wrapper, which is illustrated with four different-colored images by Gorey. The faintest chipping to dust wrapper...

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(Middle Falls, NY: The Toy Works), 1979. A cotton beanbag of a smiling pink pig, measuring seven inches from toe to eartip, and wearing a brown tweed jacket. In back, the turned-up vent shows that the jacket is lined to match his tasteful goldenrod bow-tie. This is one of five...

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(Brewster, MA: Atelier Emily Trevor). Original etching. One of 50 copies, this being one of 34 copies printed during Gorey's lifetime and signed by him. The image features the fabled Nessie swimming through the waves of Loch Ness. A bright moon illuminates the otherwise shadowy scene. Image measures 4 1/4...

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NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1988. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies, signed by Beckett and Gorey. Adapted by Samuel Beckett and Jack MacGowran. Design and typography by Ronald Gordon and Dean Bornstein, and illustrated throughout with vignettes by Gorey, printed in blue. Fine in patterned paper over boards. (Toledano B76b).

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(Middle Falls, NY: Toy Works), 1980. This bean bag bat with outstretched wings measures approximately fifteen inches from wingtip to wingtip. The fabric is printed with a black and white crosshatched pattern that is shaded on the wings and body to give the figure more dimensionality, evoking Gorey’s characteristic drawing.....

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1994. Poster for the 18th Annual International Antiquarian Boston Book Fair. The upper main illustration depicts a cat turning the page of a large book, in the company of a houseplant. At the bottom of the poster, the cat reappears in five different poses atop and inside of books. Soiling...

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NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1971. First edition. One of twenty-six lettered copies, signed by Gorey and reserved for the author and publisher. A suspenseful, nonsensical tale intended “to make all serious men mad, mad, mad, and to amuse children little, little, little.” This copy is inscribed to Bob Wilson of.....

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Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts: Edward Gorey House, 2008. Octavo. From an edition of 476, this is one of 150 copies numbered and signed by the author. Inscription on colophon from Andreas Brown, a trustee of the Edward Gorey Charitable Trust. Very fine in illustrated wrappers.

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