The Black Cat Club, Negro Humor and Folklore
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1902. Illustrated with silhouette pictures by J. K. Bryans. First Edition. 12 mo. 7-3/8" x 4-7/8". Red blind stamped cloth covered boards. Spine stamped in gold. 264 pp. More
Humor
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Quake, Quake, Quake - A Leaden Treasury of English Verse
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. Ghoulishly witty illustrations by Edward Gorey: one (and sometimes two) to each poem. Stated first printing. Small 8vo hardcover. 8-1/4" x 5-1/4". Yellow textured paper covered boards. Illustrated endpapers. Paul Dehn's hair-raising parodies of familiar verses are a stinging effort to confront mankind with..... More
Al Alligator and How He Learned to Play the Banjo
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1947. Story and Pictures by W. J. Pat Enright. Half title p. with a special illustration and signature in brown ink by the author/illustrator. First edition. Small 4to. 10" x 7". Pictorial orange cloth. 98 pp. The amusing and appealing story of a Florida..... More
The Evil Garden
Pomegranate Communications, (2011). 9780764958854. A Pomegranate reproduction of the original 1965 edition. Square 8vo. 6-1/4" x 6-7/8", Unpaginated. Green pictorial paper covered boards which match the dust jacket. Unpaginated. More
The Gashlycrumb Tinies, Or After the Outing
New York, San Diego and London: Harcourt Brace, (1991). Illustrated by Edward Gorey. 0151003084. Edward Gorey designed bookplate signed by him in ink on free front endpaper. 16mo, 6-1/4" x 5-1/4." Pictorial paper covered boards. A charming alphabet book. More
The Gilded Bat
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., (1979). Illustrated by Edward Gorey. 0396076882. First printing of the 1979 re-issue of this book first published in 1966. Small 8vo. 7-1/4" x 6-3/4." Paper covered boards. . . . . a Tale of Baroque beauty about the Passion of Art and Price of..... More
The Remembered Visit, A Story Taken From Life
Petaluma, CA: Pomegranate Communications, (2009). Illustrated by Edward Gorey. 9780764950636. This edition first published by Pomegranate Communications, Inc., 2009. Small 8vo. 7-3/8" x 6-1/2." Colorful paper covered boards. Unpaginated. On a long trip abroad, Gorey's young Drusilla is introduced to high art and gourmet meals. She gamely tries to appreciate..... More
The Secrets Vol I The Other Statue
Harcourt Inc. 0151006962. First printing of this republished edition with the letter A at beginning of letter line. There is no date of this republication but it was sometime after 2000. The original edition was done in 1968. Square 8vo. 6-3/4" x 7" hardcover. Pictorial paper covered boards. Unpaginated. More
The Laughing Willow
New York: George H. Doran, 1918. Oliver Herford. 8vo. 7-15/16 x 5-13/16. Pictorial paper covered boards stamped in green and orange. Black lettering on spine. Black initial design on back cover. Inscribed and signed by author with additional drawing and comment initialed below his signature on free front endpaper. Oliver..... More
The Pleader's Guide: A Didactic Poem in Two Parts: Containing the Conduct of a Suit at Law, with the Arguments of Counsellor Bother'um and Counsellor Bore'um in an Action Betwixt John-a-Gull, and John-a-Gudgeon, for Assault and Battery, at a late Contested Election.
T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, By A. Wilson, Wild Court, Lincoln's-Inn Fields, 1803. 16mo. 6-5/16" x 4-1/16". Marbled paper covered boards. Leather spine with raised bands and decorated panels tooled on gold.. Marbled paper endpapers. 612 pp. "Of legal Fictions, Quirks, and Glosses, Attorney's gains, and Client's losses, Of..... More
Centerburg Tales
New York: Viking Press. Illustrated with all the original beautiful, charming and funny pencil drawings by McCloskey. Seventh Printing, January 1963 of this book originally published in 1951. Large 8vo. 9-3/16" x 6-7/8". 191 pp. Beige cloth covered boards printed in brown. More
Retiring Time
Reilly & Lee, 1955. Sid Hix. First Edition. Very good condition in a very good dust jacket. More
Being a Boy
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894. Charming textual illustrations by "Champ" Twenty-third edition. 12 mo. Green cloth stamped in gold and black. Dark blue endpapers. More
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