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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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c. 1994. Ink and watercolor drawing on paper measuring 11 1/2 by 13 1/2 inches. The image, which measures 9 1/2 by 11 1/2 inches, depicts a group of teddy bears poised around a decorated Christmas wreath, which is set against a medium blue wash. Signed in the lower right...

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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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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: Esquire Magazine, c. 1966. 16mo. First edition. Accordionfold booklet with three illustrations by Gorey. Esquire's pitch to prospective advertisers is framed around a Sherlock Holmes vignette in which Watson uses Holmes's deductive reasoning to conclude that if one wants access to the heaviest periodical readers, one should advertise with...

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Cambridge, MA: Advocate House, 1950. Quarto. 24pp. Volume 134, number one. This is identified as the "Registration Issue" on the front cover, published September, 1950. Features a cover illustration by Edward Gorey, known as "Two Professors," showing two Mr. Earbrass-style characters throwing sticks at two hooded heads on pikes. This...

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NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. First Gorey edition. Signed by Gorey on the title page. Illustrations offering a fresh interpretation of such characters as "The Rum Tug Tugger" and "Macavity: the Mystery Cat", who have elsewhere been brought to life on stage in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. Spine...

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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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NY: Albondocani Press, 1971. First edition. One of 200 copies. Contains "The Wavering Disciple: A Fantasia" and "A Study in Opal," both of which were first published in The Granta, a Cambridge University undergraduate publication. With four illustrations and a tailpiece by Edward Gorey. Ends of spine a bit rubbed...

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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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Glasgow: Bryce, David, & Son, (c. 1900-1905). Five miniature volumes. (127); (127); (240); (384); (127)pp. The volumes included are: Golden Thoughts from Great Authors; Witty, Humorous, and Merry Thoughts; Robert Burns' Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect; The Smallest English Dictionary in the World; and Old English, Scotch, and Irish...

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Dublin: Cuala Press, 1941. Octavo. (xvi), (88)pp., unopened. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Title-page device of a hawk attacking a small bird by T. Sturge Moore, and colophon printed in red. A collection of letters, edited by Clifford Bax, between actress Florence Farr, playwright Bernard Shaw, and author W....

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