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Wagner, Betty Jane (Edward Gorey). Limericks. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1973.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Wide stapled illustrated wrappers . A very good clean copy in stiff decorated card wrappers. Illustrations by Gorey.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
WAGNER, Betty Jane, Edward Gorey. Limericks. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1973.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, expurgated issue. Stapled wrappers. Modest age-toning on wrappers else near fine. Gorey illustrates limericks in a book intended for the classroom. Very scarce.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
WAGNER, Betty Jane. LIMERICKS. Boston Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Price: US$105.58 + shipping
Description: First edition. Square 8vo. Publisher's pictorial paper wrappers. A near fine copy. Illustrations by Edward Gorey throughout the text. A collection of over 30 limericks by a variety of writers, including Edward Gorey, Ogden Nash and Edward Lear. Originally produced by Houghton Mifflin for the Student-Centered Language Arts and Reading Program.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
WAGNER, Betty Jane, Edward Gorey. Limericks. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1973.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, unexpurgated issue. Stapled wrappers. Modest age-toning on wrappers else near fine. Gorey illustrates limericks in a book intended for the classroom. This includes two limericks and one Gorey drawing that were were later removed.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
(Gorey, Edward) Wagner, Betty Jane. Limericks. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1973.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. [2], 30 pp, illustrated by Edward Gorey. 1 vols. 7.25 x 7.25 inches. A collection of over 30 limericks, on eof which was written by Edward Gorey. Published for school children as a textbook, including on the verso of the front cover blank spaces for student's name and the name of the school to whom the book belongs. Inscribed "For Bob [Robert Wilson]" by Edward Gorey. Uncommon. Illustrated paper wrappers. Fine [2], 30 pp, illustrated by Edward Gorey. 1 vols. 7.25 x 7.25 inches
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.