The Listing Attic de Gorey Edward - 1954

London: Abelard-Schuman Ltd, 1974. Book. Near Very Good. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Small trade paperback. Yellow card covers with Gorey's distinctive artwork. Illustrated. "A reprint of two works by one the world's most celebrated cartoonists..." First British edition thus. No previous ownership marks. Moderate curl to front cover, per usual with this edition and two vertical creases to same. Else a clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy. Near very good. .

Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1954. Hardcover. Acceptable. First Edition. Gorey's secondbook Unmarked hardcover in unclipped jacket. Jacket is in two pieces; shows considerable wear missing several chips and worn along all edges. Hardcover is badli bumped at all 4 corners and a small tear at top of spine Boards are bright and clean.

Hardback. Abelard. UK. 1974. Hardback in glazed, illustrated boards. First edition thus, of two stories in one volume, 'The Listing Attic' along with 'The Unstrung Harp' both of which were published separately in 1954 and 1953. Yellow boards are very good with light rub to bottom of spine otherwise complete. Spine is also very good and unfaded. Contents: name to front with short message and date and with old price crossed out otherwise the rest is clean and unmarked with Edward Gorey's black and white drawings throughout. Light age spots to edges of text block. Not exlib and packed and sent with care.

Abelard-Schuman. Good with no dust jacket. 1974. Paperback. 0200722905 . 7.0866141660 X 4.7244094440 X 0.5511811018 inches; 124 pages .

Illustrated by Edward Gorey

New York and Boston: Duell, Sloan And Pearce / Little Brown and Company. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Pictorial boards. Boards and extremities bumped and rubbed. Previous owner's bookplate on paste down endpaper. Dust jacket creased and rubbed with chips and tears.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce and Boston: Little Brown (1954). Stated First edition Toledano A2a; 12mo.; pictorial boards, hardcover; 64 unnumbered pages; black and white illustrations; includes 60 limericks, each with an illustration by Gorey; Author's second book; non-authorial gift-inscription on front free endpaper with sunned pages and heavily edge-rubbed boards else very good in an edgeworn, sunned and price-clipped dust jacket with the front flap completely detached but present.

Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Gorey, Edward. Pictorial boards, very light wear on edges. Page edges are toned. Clean throughout. DJ bumped on top edge with a creases. Some tanning, not price clipped. In archival cover. First printing.

The Listing Attic, Duell Sloan Pearce / Little Brown, 1954, first edition, near fine in vg+ color wraparound pictorial dust-wrapper with a closed tear and crease to the upper margin of the rear dust-wrapper panel. The authors second book. Sixty original limericks, each with an original illustration.