Worcester, MA: Metacom Press, 1989. Tall, thin quarto, measuring 11 1/4 by 2 1/4 inches. (4)ff., (or 36, depending on how you count). First edition. One of 500 copies signed by Gorey. This unusual cut-figure book follows two characters, V and W, who resemble salt and pepper shakers and experience... More
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1976. First trade edition. Illustrated throughout in color and black & white, cleverly combining "two subjects of consuming interest": postcards and bicycles. Some wear to corners, else near fine in very good dust wrapper. More
Worcester, MA: Metacom Press, 1989. Tall, thin quarto, measuring 11 1/4 by 2 1/4 inches. (4)ff., (or 36, depending on how you count). One of 500 copies signed by Gorey. This unusual cut-figure book follows two characters, V and W, who resemble salt and pepper shakers and experience changeable fates... More
NY: Beaufort Books, 1986. First printing of the Beaufort reissue. Signed by Gorey on the title page. This title originally appeared among "The Vinegar Works." The dust wrapper warns the reader that it is "An admonitory tale of Temptation, hapless Greed, abduction and Unspeakable Ritualistic Practices." Slight wear to extremities... More
NY: Peter Weed Books, 1993. First printing of the Peter Weed reissue. Signed by Gorey on the title page. This title originally appeared among "The Vinegar Works." The dust wrapper warns the reader that it is "An admonitory tale of Temptation, hapless Greed, abduction and Unspeakable Ritualistic Practices." Slight wear... More
(NY): Fantod Press, 1991. First edition. Signed by Gorey on the title page. Illustrated throughout with postage stamp-sized expressive stick figures cleverly captioned in French. Very fine in pictorial wrappers. (Toledano A-103). More
NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1973. First trade edition. One of 1000 copies. Ballet was a subject very close to Gorey's heart, and this book was written in celebration of the New York City Ballet's 50th season. Fine in illustrated wrappers. (Toledano A53c). More
NY: Beaufort Books, 1986. Reissue of the first edition. Signed by Gorey on the title page. According to the side-panel of the wrapper, "This book may well prove to be its author's most unpleasant ever." Very fine in fine dust wrapper. More
NY: Albondocani Press, 1983. First edition. One of 400 copies, signed by Edward Gorey. A disconcerting little book without any words, only unsettling images of people with shriveled prunes for their heads. Very fine in illustrated wrappers. (Toledano A88b). More
(N.p.): Fantod Press, 1990. First trade edition. Signed by Gorey. Same text and illustrations as the miniature Q.R.V. but in larger format. Fine in printed wrappers. (Toledano A97c). More
NY: Congdon & Weed, 1982. First edition. Signed by Gorey. The tale relates a "curious culinary adventure...and an instance of startling Sensibility," complete with familiar Gorey characters in fur coats and patterened frocks. Book shows scant rubbing to edges, in original dust wrapper, slightly rubbed and with minor tear. Near... More
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1979. First printing of the Dodd, Mead reissue. Signed by Gorey on the title page. Minor bumps to head and tail of spine, lightly foxed, toning to spine of price-clipped dust wrappers, else near fine in pictorial boards, with a very good dust jacket. More
NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1980. First printing of the 1980 reissue. Signed by Gorey as Ogdread Weary on the title page. Statement of edition on copyright page indicating that this is copy number 83 is a spoof; all copies are number 83. Some general rubbing to dust wrapper, small... More
c. 1964. Four sheets, three of which measure 8 1/2 by 11 inches; the single sheet of text is smaller, measuring 8 by 6 inches, and is on blue paper. The pages reveal the unfolding of Gorey's creative process in developing the story and preliminary illustrations for his book, The... More
Boston: Anne & David Bromer, 1983. (62)pp. First edition. From an edition of 400 copies signed by Gorey, this is one of 100 copies comprising the deluxe issue with the illustrations hand-colored by him. The text is an alphabet of short humorous couplets patterned after early moral primers for children... More
Boston: Anne & David Bromer, 1989. (32)ff. This Gorey rarity features a one-of-a-kind designer binding by Gabrielle Fox, one of the leading artisans in binding and conservation. Signed by Fox and the artist, Edward Gorey. With twenty-nine illustrations accompanied by rhyming couplets, Q.R.V is an homage to Isaac Watts, and... More
Boston: Anne & David Bromer, 1989. (32)ff. From an edition of 400 copies, this is one of 110 hand-colored in metallic casein by the artist, and signed by him below the colophon. This Gorey rarity is bound in a one-of-a-kind designer binding by Brother Edgard Claes, a binder known for... More
1978. First edition. Sixteen seemingly unrelated postcards housed in illustrated envelope, including "Emma Lorino or her doll, Summer 1892". Fine. (Toledano A68). More
NY: Putnam, 1972-2006. First edition. All four Amphigorey anthologies—Amphigorey, Amphigorey Too, Amphigorey Also, and Amphigorey Again—presenting a selection of Gorey's prolific output. All bound in boards with original dust wrappers. Amphigorey and Amphigorey Too have slight foxing to edges of text block and boards, general wear to dust wrapper, very... More
(N.p.): Fantod Press, (1962). First edition. One of 500 copies. Gorey's first publication from his Fantod Press, published under the name Ogdred Weary, one of his many anagram pseudonyms. Written by Gorey and illustrated with his black and white drawings, this is the story of a bloated baby with two... More
Orleans, MA: Parnassus Imprints, 1992. First edition. One of 250 copies, signed by Gorey. An illustrated catalog of Gorey's postcard collections, with a previously unpublished print laid in, signed and numbered by Gorey. Fine in illustrated wrappers and the original slipcase. (Toledano A104a). More
NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1973. First edition. One of 100 copies, signed by the author. A picture of a black doll pasted to the front cover is the only illustration. Faint fading to spine, else fine in black boards and slipcase. (Toledano A49a). More
NY: Meredith, 1968. First edition. "An opera book without libretto or score." Light edgewear to book and dust jacket, Doubleday sticker to back of jacket, else near fine.Together with a lithograph depicting one of the scenes from the book, in which "Caviglia's revival of Elagabalo was cut short." It is... More
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1976. First edition. One of 250 copies, signed by Gorey. Illustrated throughout in color and black & white, cleverly combining "two subjects of consuming interest": postcards and bicycles. Toning to dust wrapper, else near fine in slipcase. (Toledano A63b). More
NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1973. First edition. One of 126 copies, signed by the artist, Edward Gorey. A Gorey favorite, with fifty numbered cats, in color, posed in Goreyesque manner. Cat number IV lounges back on one arm while streamers wave above him. The original drawings were done to accompany... More
