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The Doubtful Guest; Edward Gorey Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1998 0151003130 / 9780151003136 Hardcover
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0151003130 New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Radical Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 32 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Originally published in 1957, Doubtful Guest serves as a prime example of the beauty, eccentricity, and brilliance of Edward Gorey's work. If the book was read aloud without revealing the accompanying black-and-white drawings, you might guess the tale came from the quirky genius of Dr. Seuss. rhyming couplets and nonsensical verse (about an even more nonsensical creature) feel familiar, but in Gorey's skilled hands, the experience becomes altogether new. doubtful guest shows up unannounced and unwelcome, yet its presence is accepted after only a brief interlude of screaming. staid, pale, Victorian inhabitants of the mansion alternately stare and glare at the doubtful guest as it tears out whole chapters from books, peels the soles of its white canvas shoes, and broods while lying on the floor ("inconveniently close to the drawing-room door"). Strangely, or rather, typically, as this is a Gorey book, the stymied occupants never ask the guest to leave--and in 17 years it has still "shown no intention of going away. " Maintaining a matter-of-fact tone in spite of true oddity is pure, delicious Gorey, and his trademark drawings are not to be missed. ghostly, stark, and undeniably amusing illustrations make Doubtful Guest an entrancing tale in which reserved, insular lives meet with the unexpected and bizarre.
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9.50 USD
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The Eclectic Abecedarium; Edward Gorey Pomegranate Communications 2008 0764945971 / 9780764945977 Hardcover
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0764945971 New in new dust jacket. Brand New! Support Radical Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Edward Gorey's first miniature book, Eclectic Abecedarium is an illustrated adventure through the English alphabet, accompanied by rhyming couplets penned by Gorey, who described his creations as "literary nonsense. " Inspired by popular moral primers for children, Gorey created an updated version of Isaac Watts' alphabetic aphorisms. Part sweet songs of unseen birds and part cautionary tales, this abecedarium fully lives up to the epithet eclectic. Originally published as a miniature, limited edition book, Eclectic Abecedarium is now being published for the first time as a trade book. 28 color illustrations. Small, hardcover.
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18.50 USD
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The Epiplectic Bicycle; Edward Gorey Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1998 0151003149 / 9780151003143 Hardcover
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0151003149 New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 64 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. A charming burlesque concerning an intrepid voyage of epic proportions by the incredibly sophisticated, stylish and inventive Edward Gorey.
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9.50 USD
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The Gashlycrumb Tinies; Edward Gorey Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1997 0151003084 / 9780151003082 Hardcover
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0151003084 New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Radical Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 64 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. This is cutest little book, but kinda morbid. Subtitled After the Outing, it goes through an alphabetical list of children and tells how they died. E is for Ernest who choked on a peach. F is for Fanny sucked dry by a leech.
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9.50 USD
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The Hapless Child; Edward Gorey Pomegranate Communications 2008 0764944681 / 9780764944680 Hardcover
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0764944681 New in new dust jacket. Brand New! Support Radical Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. In addition to writing and illustrating more than one hundred works, the renowned artist Edward Gorey (1925-2000) was also a playwright, an award-winning set and costume designer, and the creator of the animated introduction to the PBS series Mystery! This sorry tale of petite Charlotte Sophia's catastrophic, short life is classic Gorey. poor child is orphaned and treated mercilessly by schoolmates and ruffians alike, and only barely survives--for a time, anyway--by the skin of her baby teeth. Even her doll suffers a gruesome end. little girl's journey is perfect fodder for Edward Gorey's brilliant penwork, so detailed and perfectly wrought that it's hard to believe he could master these images at such a small size (the illustrations reproduced in the book are the same size as his original drawings). Hapless Child is widely regarded as one of Gorey's best books; happily it is now back in print after an absence of many years, so that we can all enjoy weeping for Charlotte Sophia again...and again, and again.
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14.00 USD
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The Recently Deflowered Girl: The Right Thing to Say on Every Dubious Occasion; Edward Gorey; Hyacinthe Phypps Bloomsbury USA 2009 1608190625 / 9781608190621 Hardcover
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1608190625 New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Radical Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 47 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. An infectiously funny guide to post-deflowerment decorum, with illustrations by a master of the absurd. For more than half a century Miss Hyacinthe Phypps has been offering guidance on proper behavior. Her simple rules of propriety and common sense have helped a generation of girls over the threshold to womanhood. Recognizing the need that prevails more today than ever before, Miss Phypps has been persuaded to bring back into print this priceless volume of her words of advice, delightfully accompanied by Edward Gorey's ink and watercolor illustrations, that have been so valuable on so many occasions. It is the publishers' fondest hope that this book will serve the current generation of young ladies as it served their mothers. Hardcover, b&w.
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11.00 USD
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