Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Children's - Gorey, Edward. The Broken Spoke (Signed). Dodd, Mead, New York, 1976.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small oblong 8vo in dustwrapper. Unpaginated. First edition of this Gorey illustrated book. Some offset or light stains to the inside front pastedown else a clean very good example in near fineprice-intact dustwrapper. This copy has been SIGNED by Gorey on the title page.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Gorey, Edward. BROKEN SPOKE. Dodd Mead, 1976.
Price: US$226.20 + shipping
Description: BROKEN SPOKE, Dodd Mead, 1976, first edition, fine in like pictorial dust-wrapper. SIGNED by the author/artist and profusely illustrated by him in both color and black & white.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
GOREY, Edward. The Broken Spoke (Signed First Edition). Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1976.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition and first printing. Small oblong hardcover. A collection of color and black and white illustrations by Gorey. A fine copy in illustrated paper covered boards and in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed by Gorey on the title page. (Toledano A63c) A very fresh copy.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Gorey, Edward. The Broken Spoke. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1976.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: SIGNED. Oblong duodecimo [13 cm x 19 cm] Illustrated boards. Rubbing to extremities, particularly spine ends. Illustrated pastedowns are both toned, and hinges are weakening. In a price-clipped dust jacket with light chipping and a 2cm closed tear. Signed by Edward Gorey on the title page. Postcards about bicycling, as envisioned and illustrated by Edward Gorey. In color and black-and-white. Sixteen of the thirty-one cards (and accompanying text) appeared in appeared in "Sports Illustrated" prior to the publication of this title.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Gorey, Edward. The Broken Spoke. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1976.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed, limited, in slip case. #119 out of 250. Book has a touch of shelf wear near heel of spine. Jacket shows a hint of rubbing at head. Slip case has some light scuffing to corners and back panel. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall.
Seller: Peruse the Stacks, Gig Harbor, WA, U.S.A.
Gorey, Edward. The Broken Spoke. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1976.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, limited issue. Number 44 of a limited 250 copies, signed by Edward Gorey. Fine, in a Near Fine spine faded dust jacket, in a Fine publisher's slipcase. A lovely copy.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Gorey, Edward. THE BROKEN SPOKE: From the Pen of Dogear Wryde. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1976.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Oblong Sm 8vo. Paper covered boards with wraparound illustration, with black spine and cover lettering. Illustrated end papers. Limited/signed numbered: 157/250. In illustrated dust-jacket (with price intact) and publisher's maroon slipcase. Toledano A63b. SIGNED by Edward Gorey on the limitation page. Slipcase has slight wear at corners, else Fine. Laid in is a Gotham Book Mart and Dodd, Mead & Company post card invitation to the publication celebration, with Gorey's illustration titled 'Innocence, on a Bicycle of Propriety, carrying the Urn of Reputation safely over the Abyss of Indiscretion'. The post card is addressed and stamped, and has a small water spot and small hand stamp letters and numbers on the image. A crisp, as new copy, in dust-jacket and slipcase.
Seller: Waugh Books, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$786.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, number 86 of 250 copies signed by the author/illustrator; oblong 8vo (130 x 180 mm.); full-page illustrations by Gorey with captions on the verso, publisher' s pictorial boards, in matching pictorial dust-jacket, original burgundy slip-case, a near-fine copy. Edward Gorey's fun and occasionally dark exploration of the history of bicycling; scarce in such condition and with the original slip-case present. Toledano A63c
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom