A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS: The Bad Beginning; The Reptile Room; The Wide Window; The Miserable Mill; Austere Academy; Ersatz Elevator; Vile Village; Hostile Hospital; Carnivorous Carnival; Slippery Slope; Grim Grotto; Penultimate Peril; The End by Snicket, Lemony (pen name used by Daniel Handler) - 1999

New York: Harper Trophy, 1999. 162, 190, 214, 194, 221, 259, 256, 255, 286, 337, 323, 353, 324 pp. Books 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, and 13 are first editions. All thirteen books are bound in pictorial boards with decorated endpapers and headbands. All have light edge and corner wear; no interior markings. Illustrated with drawings by Brett Helquist. A Series of Unfortunate Events was filmed in 2004, directed by Brad Silberling and starring Jude Law as the voice of Lemony Snicket, Jim Carrey, Liam Aiken, Emily Browning, Kara Hoffman, Shelby Hoffman, Catherine O'Hara, Billy Connolly, Craig Ferguson, Cedric the Entertainer, Meryl Streep as Aunt Josephine, and many others, including Helena Bonham Carter in an uncredited role as Beatric Baudelaire. To be clear, the books here are: 1: The Bad Beginning; 2: The Reptile Room; 3: The Wide Window; 4: The Miserable Mill; 5: The Austere Academy; 6: The Ersatz Elevator; 7: The Vile Village; 8: The Hostile Hospital; 9: The Carnivorous Carnival; 10: The Slippery Slope; 11: The Grim Grotto; 12: The Penultimate Peril; and 13: The End.. First and Later Printings. Hardcover. Very Good+. Illus. by Brett Helquist;. 12mo. Book.