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Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Printed yellow cardstock. 5" x 6". Fine. Gorey illustration with promotional and ordering information on the verso.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$326.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: No. 147 of 200 hand-numbered copies for sale (26 lettered copies were also issued), with illustrations by Edward Gorey and foreword by Miriam J. Benkovitz. Crown 8vo (190 x 135mm): 54,[2]pp, with four illustrations. Original limp brown, grey, and gold French marble wrappers over card covers, paper title label printed in brown to front panel, text printed on olive-green laid paper, fore-edge untrimmed. Fine. Benkovitz A26. Toledano B52b. Both stories originally appeared in Granta, a Cambridge University publication, in 1906 and 1907, respectively, years Firbank spent at Trinity Hall, during which he converted to Roman Catholicism (lesbian nuns became a literary specialty). Gorey was extremely fond of Firbank and counted him among his important literary influences (a sentiment Firbank expressed often about Oscar Wilde, whose son, Vyvyan Holland, had decided against publishing "The wavering Disciple" in The Crescent, another Cambridge publication, because Holland thought the story unsuited to the tastes of the university's "hearty, rowing, drinking, swearing" undergraduates). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 7 3/4 inches. 54,[2] pp. including six illustrations. Publisher's marbled wrappers, paper cover label. Fine. From a stated edition of 226 copies (200 numbered copies for sale, and 26 lettered and not for sale); this copy out of series and unnumbered. The first book publication of two stories Ronald Firbank wrote during his years at Cambridge, which first appeared in Cambridge's undergraduate magazine, THE GRANTA, in 1906 and 1907. In an unpublished memoir of Edward Gorey and the Albondocani Press, Albondocani founder George Bixby recounts approaching Gorey about illustrating the work: "I thought the Firbank stories would be an ideal project for illustrations by Gorey, told him about the stories, and asked him if he would be interested in making some drawings to accompany them. He was immediately interested. 'Firbank is one of my oldest passions,' he told me. In THE BLUE ASPIC, Gorey s spoof of opera, the hero, 'Jasper went without lunch three days running to buy Caviglia s recording of "Vivi con una mira" from IL FIORE SOTTO IL PIEDE." This title is a translation of THE FLOWER BENEATH THE FOOT, the title of one of Firbank s novels."Gorey initially produced two section title page drawings with title lettering lettering for the stories. After Bixby received the proofs of the of the text from printer William Ferguson in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he observed that because of the breaks in the stories, he was left with four pages that contained only half a page of text. Gorey volunteered to make four additional drawings to fill the spaces. "We had previously discussed a fee for his work, but he told me that since he _wanted_ to do the drawings for these stories he would leave it up to me to pay him whatever I could manage. Since the project was being done on a shoestring budget, I offered Gorey $100, and he accepted my offer without further comment." With a foreword by Firbank biographer and bibliographer Miriam J. Benkowitz. Benkovitz A26. Toledano B52b. From the collection of George Bixby.
Seller: W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 20 pages (five sheets from the first edition of these two early Edward Firbank stories) folded and gathered into two signatures, with sew holes. Illustrations by Edward Gorey. Fine. This set, owned since publication by a close friend of the publisher, is comprised of pp. 11-22 contiguous in the first signature, and pp. 27-30, 37-38, 43-44 in the second signature. The text of each story is incomplete, but the two Gorey illustrations are present. The original owner was a passionate Gorey collector and likely asked the publisher to retain these extra sheets rather than discarding them. Rare Gorey ephemera.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Firbank, Ronald. TWO EARLY STORIES. Albondocani Press, New York, 1971.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Drawings by Edward Gorey. Sm 8vo. White wrappers. Dust-jacket, French marble paper with title on white paper label on front cover, is attached to the spine of the book. 54 pages. Limited numbered: 85/200. Toledano B52b. Albondocani Press Publication No. 11. A crisp, as new copy.
Seller: Waugh Books, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.
FIRBANK, Ronald. (Edward Gorey). Two Early Stories. Albondocani Press, New York, 1971.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Illustrations by Edward Gorey. Foreword by Miriam J. Benkovitz. Fine in self-wrappers with applied paper label. Copy number 34 of 200 numbered copies. Prospectus for the book laid in.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
(Edward Gorey) FIRBANK, Ronald.. Two Early Stories.. Albondocani Press,, NY:, 1971.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited edition: this copy is number 45 of 200 copies. Fine in marbled wraps. ; 54 pages
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Rendered into English and illustrated by Edward Gorey. Oblong 24mo. Illustrated yellow stitched wrappers. [unpaginated] Limited/signed numbered: 55/300. Toledano A41b. SIGNED by Edward Gorey on the limitation page. With Albondocani Press promotional postcard laid in. Albondocani Press Publication No. 14. A crisp, as new copy.
Seller: Waugh Books, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Oblong 16mo. 36pp. Illustrated. Sewn yellow pictorial wrappers. Publisher's printed prospectus laid in. Fine. Copy number 49 of 300 numbered copies Signed by Edward Gorey.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Alphonse Allais. Story for Sara. Albondocani, 1971.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine copy Signed by Edward Gorey. number 19/300 copies.
Seller: Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition of 300 numbered copies, signed by Edward Gorey. Paperback on Italian Fabriano papers, printed at The Hunter Press, Perkinsville, VT and bound at The Ferguson Press, Cambridge, MA as Albondocani Press Publication No. 14. Private collector's seal on inside front cover. A beautiful copy.
Seller: A Book By Its Cover, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
(Gorey, Edward) Allais, Alphonse. Story for Sara. Albondocani Press, New York, 1971.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, copy 69 of 300 numbered and signed by the illustrator. [36] pp., illustrated by Edward Gorey. 1 vols. 5 x 6 inches. Publisher's promotional postcard laid in. Yellow paper wrappers, text printed on yellow paper. Faint rubbing to edges of the wrappers, otherwise fine [36] pp., illustrated by Edward Gorey. 1 vols. 5 x 6 inches First edition, copy 69 of 300 numbered and signed by the illustrator.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
FIRBANK, Ronald; GOREY, Edward. Two Early Stories. Albondocani Press, New York, 1971.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Copy 107 of a total edition of 200 (there were an additional 26 lettered copies "for the use of the publisher.") Not called for in the limitation, this copy is SIGNED BY GOREY (on the title-page), and scarce thus. Original marbled wrappers.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Illustrations by Edward Gorey. Foreword by Miriam J. Benkovitz. Fine in self-wrappers with applied paper label. One of 200 numbered copies.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Stapled wrappers. A fine, as new copy. Prospectus for the edition laid in. One of 300 numbered copies Signed by Gorey.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Illustrations by Edward Gorey. Foreword by Miriam J. Benkovitz. Fine in self-wrappers with applied paper label. Copy number 4 of 200 numbered copies.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Coopy "T" of 26 copies, signed by Gorey. Illkus. [36pp]. Oblong 12mo (5 x 6 inches). Yellow pictorial wrappers. FIne Illkus. [36pp]. Oblong 12mo (5 x 6 inches)
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Stapled wrappers. Fine. Prospectus for the edition laid in. Copy number 8 of 300 numbered copies Signed by Gorey.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.