The Haunted Tea-Cosy A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas by Edward Gorey - 1997

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, N.Y.., 1997. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine [Mylar protected]. First Edition. [Unpaged - Approx. 64 pp] . First Edition, letters start with A. Ex-library with a few library marks, otherwise clean and unmarked. A very lightly used copy. Very Collectible. The ghost of Christmas to come, not as Dickens imagined but as Gorey imagine---inimitable and irreverent. Gorey's illustrations, on each recto page, are accompanied by brief text on the verso facing page. ABBBB

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New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 0151004153 . B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has some light ground-in dirt and light toning to the spine, spine joints and edges. There is a smallish spot of brown discoloration to the top edge of the rear panel. "Gorey's illustrated (and sometimes wordless) books, with their vaguely ominous air and ostensibly Victorian and Edwardian settings, have long had a cult following. [13] He made a notable impact on the world of theater with his designs for the 1977 Broadway revival of Dracula, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Costume Design and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Scenic Design. [14] In 1980, Gorey became particularly well known for his animated introduction to the PBS… Read More

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. Good+. 1999. Hardcover. 0747545308 . Internally clean and tight, shelf marks, bump and scratch to cover. ; 64 pages .

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1997. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. Oblong octavo. Fine in trifle worn, fine dust jacket.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1997. 1st Printing . Small Illus. Bds W. Dj.. Gorey tells a strange tale for Christmas. Illustrated with charming Gorey drawings and printed in 4 colors. Price clipped a lovey fine copy. Fine/fine.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Co, 1998 Pictorial boards, a light foxing to endappers and top edge of text block; matching dust jacket with dust soil along top edge and tiny hole in rear spine fold, original price intact $15.00. A darkly humorous Christmas tale, written and illustrated by Edward Gorey, which originally appeared in the New York Times Magazine.. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Edward Gorey. Square 8vo.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1997. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Gorey. Oblong small octavo. [64]pp. Cover trifle splayed else fine in pictorial boards and fine dust jacket. Signed by Gorey on a publisher's bookplate laid down onto the front fly.

New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1997., 1997.. Fine. - Small quarto, 7-1/2 inches square. Bound in pink, green and black pictorial boards with illustrations by Gorey, in a matching dust wrapper titled in black on the front panel and on the spine. The book is housed in a dark blue slipcase. The dust wrapper is price-clipped and was possibly issued thus for the limited edition. Unpaginated, with Edward Gorey's illustrations in green and black on the rectos. Near fine Number 44 of 500 SIGNED AND NUMBERED copies. The colophon reads: "This special issue of the first edition of THE HAUNTED TEA-COSY is limited to 500 numbered copies, signed by the author and slipcased. 26 copies, lettered A-Z, are reserved for the author and Gotham Book Mart. This is copy 44".