Born to Be Posthumous : The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery - 2018

Little Brown & Company. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Little, Brown and Company, 2018-11-06. Hardcover. Like New. 6x1x9. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages.

Little, Brown and Company, 2018-11-05. hardcover. Very Good. Very Good text, typical light reading wear to edges and dustjacket.. Most items shipped via US Mail. Please provide a US Mail delivery address at checkout. Biblio's shipping charge based on a 2 lb weight. Oversize and heavy books will require an additional shipping charge.

Little, Brown and Company, 2018. Later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. A Very Good copy in a Near Fine dustjacket. Book has shelfwear, soiling to covers and edges of text block, and a former owner's name on the front endpaper; DJ has a touch of shelfwear. Interior is otherwise clean, unmarked, and tight. 8vo. - over 7¾' in - 9¾' in.

Little, Brown and Company, 2018-11-06. hardcover. Good. 6x0x8. Hardcover with dust jacket in good condition.

Little, Brown and Company. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 2018. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0316188549 . Tears (smaller than ½ inch) to DJ. Fold on page 179. Otherwise in great condition. No writing or noteworthy blemishes. .

Little, Brown and Company, 2018. Hardcover. New/New. Stored new

Little, Brown and Company, 2018. Very Good. Dery, Mark. Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2018. viii, 503pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Former owner's large bookplate on front free end sheet. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Edges lightly bumped and chipped.

New York: Little Brown, 2018. 503 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs, reproductions. "From 'The Gashlycrumb Tinies' to 'The Doubtful Guest', Edward Gorey's wickedly funny, deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in countless ways, from Tim Burton's movies to Ann Sui's fashion to Neil Gaiman's 'Coraline' to Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Some call him the Grandfather of Goth (which would've given him the fantods). Just who was this man who lived with six cats, owned more than 20,000 books, roomed with the poet Frank O'Hara at Harvard, and liked to traipse around in floor-length fur coats, clanking bracelets, and an Edwardian beard? An eccentric, a solitary, an enigmatic auteur of whimsically morbid masterpieces, yes - but who was the real Edward Gorey behind the Oscan Wildean pose? He published more than a hundred books and illustrated works by Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Edward Lear, John Updike,… Read More

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2018. 2nd pr.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 503 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth. But who was this man, who lived with over twenty thousand books and six cats, who roomed with Frank O'Hara at Harvard, and was known -- in the late 1940s, no less -- to traipse around in full-length fur coats, clanking bracelets, and an Edwardian beard? An eccentric, a gregarious recluse, an enigmatic auteur of whimsically morbid masterpieces, yes -- but who was the real Edward Gorey behind the Oscar Wildean pose? He published over a hundred books and illustrated works by Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Edward Lear, John Updike, Charles Dickens, Hilaire Belloc, Muriel Spark, Bram Stoker,… Read More