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Gorey, Edward; Weyrd, Madame Groeda. The Fantod Pack. Gotham Book Mart, 1995.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1995. Softcover booklet with twenty cards illustrated by Gorey. First limited edition; this is copy 550/776 signed by Gorey. Staple bound pictorial wraps. Booklet and cards are in near fine or better condition. The box containing the booklet and cards is a bit pushed in on the left side and is in very good condition. Scarce.
Seller: Bad Animal, Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.
Gorey, Edward. THE FANTOD PACK : INTERPRETED BY MADAME GROEDA WEYRD. Gotham Book Mart, 1995.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Booklet and cards in original two-piece box. Booklet: 4 3/4 inches, [32] pp., including portrait frontispiece; stiff pictorial wrappers, stapled. Cards: 4 3/4 inches, [20] loose laminated cards with individual pictorial rectos and uniform patterned versos. Box: 5 inches, pictorial lid, paper over card. Numbered and signed by the artist on the colophon. Fine. First edition of Edward Gorey's pack of twenty divination cards and its accompanying interpretive booklet, numbered 676 of 750 numbered and 26 lettered copies (the latter copies not published for sale). Its creator, Madame Groeda Weyrd ("a nom de guerre merely; her true one is known to few this side of the grave"), was a clairvoyante of Finnish and Egyptian extraction who made her home in the Staten Island portion of Tierra del Fuego; she was long a persona non grata "to many of the rich and famous because of her fearless predictions of disaster." Toledano A113b.
Seller: W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
GOREY, Edward as Madame Groeda Weyrd. The Fantod Pack. Gotham Book Mart, New York, 1995.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Stapled pamphlet and twenty laminated cards in illustrated cardboard box. A fine example. One of 750 numbered copies Signed by Gorey.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.