Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Edward Gorey. The Listing Attic. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1954.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 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.
Seller: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.
Gorey, Edward. The Listing Attic. Duell, Sloan and Pierce / Little, Brown and Company, 1954.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Duell Sloan and Pierce/Little, Brown and Company. Small octavo. Hardcover with a dust jacket. First edition. Green pictorial boards that are rubbed along the edges. Minor moisture stain visible on the front board and top edge of the text block, but hardly affecting the interior contents. Price clipped jacket shows evidence of the same moisture stain and is rubbed and chipped. Book and jacket are both in good condition.
Seller: Bad Animal, Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.
Gorey, Edward. The Listing Attic. Duell, Sloan and Pierce ; Little, Brown, New York & Boston, 1954.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (64) Pp. Illustrated by Edward Gorey Author's second title. 60 unsettling limericks Illustrated cloth in dust jacket
Seller: Schooner Books Ltd.(ABAC/ALAC), Halifax, NS, Canada
Gorey, Edward. The Listing Attic. NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce and Boston: Little Brown (1954), 1954.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: WellRead Books A.B.A.A., Northport, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: - Octavo, 7-1/2 inches high by 5 inches wide. Hardcover, pictorial boards featuring an illustration by Gorey, titled in black on the front cover and on the spine. The book is laid into a matching price-clipped dust wrapper with a self-portrait by Gorey on the rear panel. The corners and head and tail of the book's spine are rubbed. There are a couple of tiny tears to the top edge of the dust jacket with minor rubbing to the folds. The top of the jacket's inner flaps are darkened. Unpaginated, with sixty limericks each with a black & white illustration by Edward Gorey. Very good. First edition, so stated. [Toledano A2a]. The second book by Edward Gorey.
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
Gorey, Edward. The Listing Attic. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1954.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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.
Seller: Bearly Read Books, Sudbury, MA, U.S.A.
GOREY, Edward.. The Listing Attic.. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1954.
Price: US$261.79 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo., orig. pictorial paper boards, (64)pp. With illustrations by Gorey. Some light rubbing to the spine ends o/w a near fine copy in a d/w with wear along the top edge but still very good.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Gorey, Edward. The Listing Attic. Duell Sloan Pearce / Little Brown, 1954.
Price: US$290.00 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Gorey, Edward. THE LISTING ATTIC. Duell, Sloan, & Pearce / Little, Brown, New York / Boston, 1954.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Sm 8vo. Illustrated boards. Dark green end papers. [unpaginated] SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by Edward Gorey on the title page: "For _____ 2 December 1966 Edward Gorey". Gorey has signed above his crossed through name. Toledano A2a. Slight wear to bottom edges, spine ends, and corners. Illustrated dust-jacket (with "$2.00" price intact) is chipped, with a short, closed tear at spine on front panel, and slight loss at top of front panel and at bottom of rear panel. Old tape reinforcement on back of dust-jacket, down spine. The stated first edition, in dust-jacket, of Gorey's second book, signed and inscribed by Gorey.
Seller: Waugh Books, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: Chipping, browning, a few short tears, small crease, to edges of jacket with a bit of loss, mostly along top edge. Not price clipped, faint shelfwear to book. A nice copy of Gorey's second book, signed by him on the title page. Toledano A2a Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 047075.
Seller: Pazzo Books, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Gorey, Edward ( Beaumont, Charles ). THE LISTING ATTIC. Duell Sloan Pearce, 1954.
Price: US$1363.75 + shipping
Description: THE LISTING ATTIC, Duell, Sloan and Pearce / Little, Brown, 1954, first edition, fine in like color wraparound pictorial dust-wrapper with one short closed tear. The author/artists second book consisting of illustrations and limericks. This copy INSCRIBED by author Charles Beaumont on the front end-paper and dated Xmas 1954 (at time of publication) to his then agent Forrest Ackerman with an original bawdy limerick of his own.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.