The Gorey Alphabet de Gorey, Edward

Illustrations by Edward Gorey

London, UK: Constable, 1961. First Edition. 1st Printing.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo 5.75 - 6.75'' tall. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: No Jacket. Constable, London, UK 1961. First Edition. 1st Printing. Unpaginated pages. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Size: 16mo 5.75 - 6.75'' tall. USA title 'The Fatal Lozenge'. Fiction Modern::Horror 6326 6326

THE GOREY ALPHABET, Constable, 1961, first English and first hard-cover edition, some wear to the upper rear fore edge corner tip, else vg+/near fine without dust-wrapper as issued. First published in the U.S. as THE FATAL LOZENGE.

London: Constable, 1961. [Illustrated Poetry] FIRST UK EDITION. Duodecimo (15 x 12cm), pp.56 [unpaginated]. Publisher's pictorial pink cloth lettered in black to upper board and spine. Numerous line illustrations throughout. Bumping to cloth extremities. Fine. Beginning with 'An Apparition of her lover', and ending with 'The Zouave used to war and battle', Edward's Gorey's alphabet tracks through the letters with increasingly depressing illustrations and poetry. This book was first published in the United States under the alternative title 'The Fatal Lozenge'.

London: Constable, 1961. First British Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+. Gorey, Edward. A humorous romp through the alphabet, with all sorts of savory & unsavory persons from the brilliant mind & pen of Edward Gorey representing each letter. Unpaginated. Orig. published in the US in 1960 in a softcover edition with the title,"The Fatal Lozenge'' (see our listing #017924 for that title), this is the First British Edition, first printing, from 1961 with the new title & different cover illustrations than those that appeared on the American version. Small (5.75" x 4.5") hardcover has bright pink boards decorated with one of Gorey's wonderfully macabre scenes, including the standard dead body & skeleton & haunted lady/curious child. Condition is VG+: extremely clean & bright, binding strong & straight, pages white & unmarked. No DJ as issued. Besides the sunned spine, the corners are slightly bumped. Our photos depict the Ex act book you will… Leer más

Constable. Very Good/No Dust Wrapper. 1961. Hard Cover. (J496) .

1st British Edition. Fine Condition

London: Constable, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Edward Gorey . First English Edition, retitled from the 1960 Ivan Obolensky paperback issue. Toledano A6c. No dustjacket as issued. Illustrated boards, signed on title page. Light rubbing to corner tips.