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Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Landcape octavo (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. With a hand SIGNED Edward Gorey "MYSTERY!" illustrated bookplate opposite the half title. 192 p. w/ interview with Gorey, essay on Goprey, illustrations from his books and art, chronology, bibliography.
Seller: Motte & Bailey, Booksellers, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Clifford Ross and Karen Wilkin. THE WORLD OF EDWARD GOREY (SIGNED). Abrams, N.Y., 1996.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A very fine hardcover copy in a very fine jacket/brodart covered. First Edition. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS on the title page. A very nice copy in like new and unread condition.
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
Ross, Clifford and Wilkin, Karen. The World of Edward Gorey. Harry N Abrams Inc, New York, 1996.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Oblong. Edward Gorey signed bookplate (Mystery on top) on second page. Stain to top inside front spine. Discoloration to top, front spine corner. Text and illustrations fine.
Seller: Take Five Books, Ashland, OR, U.S.A.
Ross, Clifford (and Karen Wilkin). The World of Edward Gorey. Harry N. Abrams, 1996.
Price: US$193.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A lovely First Edition signed by Edward Gorey on a "Mystery!" bookplate on the verso of the front free endpaper. A like new copy that reviews the life of the artistic master with Gorey interviews, many illustrations (many of them in color) and extensive indexes. A beautiful copy.
Seller: Parrish Books, Sandy, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Oblong clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. 190 pp. With 200 line drawings, including 24 plates in full color. A terrific overview of the works of Gorey including an interview with him. A lovely fine copy in near fine dustwrapper. This from the first trade edition. SIGNED BY ROSS, WILKIN and GOREY on the title page.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall; 189 pages; [SIGNED] 1996 Harry N. Abrams. Oversize, oblong format HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Pictorial bookplate from a design by Gorey is signed by him and mounted to the verso of the front endpage. Snugly bound and very neat in sharp edged pictorial dust jacket. Trace toning to jacket edges and a ahint of dust top edge. Lavishly illustrated with reproductions of Gorey's work. Presumably issued by the publisher as smaller set of signed copies following the Limited edition issue, as there appear a number of copies with the identical publisher supplied bookplate signed by Gorey. NF/NF; Signed by Author
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing. Fine, fresh example in equally fine dust jacket. THIS COPY IS SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE BY GOREY, ROSS, AND WILKIN (this is NOT one of the 300 signed limited copies--those were signed on a limitation page). Oblong oversized volume in black cloth with spine lettered in gilt and red. Illustrated endpapers. 189 pp. with bibliography. With 200 line drawings and 24 plates in full color. Lavishly illustrated monograph that explores Edward Gorey's roles as artist, illustrator, and theater designer. The book introduces readers to Gorey himself by way nof an interview with Clifford Ross. From there, art critic Kae=ren Wilkin take sthe reader on a voyage through Gorey-world, analyzing the evolution and sources of the artist's style. Both important and lesser known works are discussed.
Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.