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Gorey Edward
The Glorious Nosebleed. Fifth Alphabet
NY: Dodd Mead 1974. Gorey Edward. Oblong octavo. 58pp. One of 250 copies signed by the author and illustrator Edward Gorey. A delightfully written alphabet of adverbs. Fine in orange pictorial boards somewhat rubbed at corners with matching dust wrapper which shows slight toning to the spine. Housed in a red slipcase. Toledano A59b. Dodd, Mead unknown
Referência livreiro : 29601
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Neumeyer Peter
Why We Have Day and Night
NY: Young Scott Books 1970. Gorey Edward. Oblong octavo. 40pp. First edition. Signed by Gorey on the title page. An imaginative exploration of why the night is dark printed in orange black and white. The text was written in collaboration with Peter Neumeyer. Dust jacket shows the slightest some soiling at edges and faint rubbing at corners else near fine overall. Toledano A37a. Young Scott Books unknown
Referência livreiro : 29610
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Problem Pictures
NY: Graham 1975. Gorey Edward. Oblong 16mo. Single-fold advertisement for an exhibition of Gorey's work in December of 1975. Signed by Gorey. Fine in original envelope. Graham unknown
Referência livreiro : 29617
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Gorey Edward
Alms for Oblivion Series: Dogear Wryde Postcards
1978. Gorey Edward. First edition. Signed by Gorey. Sixteen seemingly unrelated postcards housed in illustrated envelope including "Emma Lorino or her doll Summer 1892". Cards all fine in an envelope wrinkled at edges else near fine. Toledano A68. unknown
Referência livreiro : 29663
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Shakespeare William
Dialogue: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Minneapolis: Seymour Press 2017. Narrow folio. 34ff. One of thirty copies. Signed by C. B. Sherlock who designed printed bound and boxed the book. The volume is flush with woodland imagery; pages of text are interleaved with multicolored relief prints of layered leaves and dragonflies June beetles butterflies and fireflies flit through the work as fairies do through the play. Innovatively bound with an open spine sewn over walnut ink-dyed paper threads encircling a tree branch. Mint in slipcase. Two prospectuses laid in. Seymour Press unknown
Referência livreiro : 29302
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Gorey Edward
The Fraught Settee
N.p.: Fantod Press 1990. Gorey Edward. First edition. One of 500 copies signed by Gorey. Full-page Gorey illustrations and facing pages of verse on the themes of settees companionship cake and Q.R.V. Fine in illustrated wrappers featuring cushions reading Q.R.V. Toledano A99. Fantod Press unknown
Referência livreiro : 29654
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Updike John
The Twelve Terrors of Christmas
NY: Gotham Book Mart 1993. Gorey Edward. First edition. One of 100 copies signed by Updike and Gorey. Gorey perfectly illustrates each of Updike's darkly humorous holiday fears ranging from the unsettling character of "Santa: The Man" to the threat of a Christmas tree toppling over "under its weight of explosive baubles." Fine in illustrated tan boards. Prospectus laid in. Toledano B80b. Gotham Book Mart unknown
Referência livreiro : 29641
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Gorey Edward
Q.R.V. Unwmkd. Imperf. Together with: Q.R.V. Hikuptah
1996. Gorey Edward. First edition. Both sets are from an edition of 500 copies and each are signed by the illustrator Edward Gorey as "Dogear Wryde." The sets contain twelve postcards printed with new verses penned by Gorey about the panacea of Q.R.V. Both sets of postcards are housed in their original envelopes and are in fine condition. unknown
Referência livreiro : 29665
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Poster for a Performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet
Cotuit MA: Cotuit Center for the Arts 1996. Gorey Edward. Broadside. One of 100 copies. Signed by Gorey. Gorey's illustration depicts a dark figure caught at the center of an optical illusion. Fine. Cotuit Center for the Arts unknown
Referência livreiro : 29681
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Gorey Edward
Gorey Cats Paper Dolls
San Francisco: Troubador Press 1982. Gorey Edward. Octavo. 40pp. Signed by Gorey. Three paper cats may be cut from the stiff rear cover dressed in designated costumes and placed in front of morose and romantic sets drawn from Gorey's books. General edgewear else near fine in pictorial covers. Troubador Press unknown
Referência livreiro : 29637
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Gorey Edward
The Vinegar Works: Three Volumes of Moral Instruction
NY: Simon and Schuster 1963. Gorey Edward. Three oblong octavo volumes. 34; 58; 66pp. First edition. A complete set of three books intended to "instruct appall and amuse." It includes The Insect God and The West Wing as well as the first appearance of The Gashleycrumb Tinies one of Gorey's most beloved works. A near fine set with a bit wear to the spines and toning to The West Wing. Housed in publisher's slipcase as issued which shows some toning and wear to edges. Toledano A13. Simon and Schuster unknown
Referência livreiro : 29580
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Gorey Edward
The Glorious Nosebleed. Fifth Alphabet. With a copy of second printing
NY: Dodd Mead 1974. Gorey Edward. Two oblong octavo volumes. 58; 58pp. Second printing is signed by Gorey. A delightfully written alphabet of adverbs. First edition is very good in orange pictorial boards somewhat rubbed at corners with matching dust wrapper not price-clipped which shows some edgewear toning to the spine and one-inch tear to upper cover. Second printing is near fine in red pictorial boards with some rubbing to corners in very good red dust wrapper with toning to spine and interior and minor rubbing. Dodd, Mead unknown
Referência livreiro : 29602
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Gorey Edward
Q.R.V.
Boston: Anne & David Bromer 1989. Gorey Edward. 49pp. First edition. From an edition of 400 copies signed by Gorey this is one of 110 comprising the deluxe issue with twenty-nine illustrations hand-colored by him in silver and gold metallic paint. An homage to Isaac Watts Gorey's text is obscurely akin to Divine Songs for Children. This is the second of two miniature books produced by Gorey both of which were published by the Bromers. The book is bound in patterned boards with a gilt-stamped leather spine label. Fine in original slipcase bearing a hand-colored label. 1 1/2 by 1 5/8; 37x40mm. Bromer pp. 56-58; Toledano A97a; Bradbury p. 39. Anne & David Bromer unknown
Referência livreiro : 29585
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Gorey Edward
The Headless Bust: A Melancholy Meditation on the False Millennium
NY: Harcourt Brace 1999. Gorey Edward. First edition. One of 750 copies signed by Gorey. An adventure in verse of a man and his companion the Bahhumbug. The end of their journey marks the start of the new millennium. With Bahhumbug beanbag toy well-dressed in suit tie and spats and standing a foot in length. Fine in dust wrapper and green cloth slipcase. Harcourt Brace unknown
Referência livreiro : 29596
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Gorey Edward
The Edward Gorey Bestiary. 1984 Engagement Calendar
Corte Madera CA: Pomegranate Art Books 1983. Gorey Edward. Octavo. 56pp. Signed by the author/artist. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Near fine in spiral-bound pictorial wrappers. Pomegranate Art Books unknown
Referência livreiro : 29698
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Toledano Henry
Goreyography
San Francisco: Word Play Publications 1996. Gorey Edward. First edition. One of 226 copies signed by Gorey and by the authors. This illustrated reference work includes ephemera and collectibles dramatic productions a list of pseudonyms and more. The first true Gorey bibliography. Annotated in pencil throughout front endpaper creased. Bound in cloth-covered boards some sunning to bottoms of covers. Overall about fine in dust wrapper. Word Play Publications unknown
Referência livreiro : 29702
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Heide Florence Parry
Treehorn's Wish
NY: Holiday House 1984. Gorey Edward. First edition. Signed by Gorey. The curious tale of young Treehorn's discovery of a genie in an urn and the consequences of his wishes. Bound in teal cloth over boards. Upper board somewhat splayed. Near fine in near fine dust wrapper. Holiday House unknown
Referência livreiro : 29621
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Gorey Edward
The Gashlycrumb Tinies. 50th Anniversary Edition 1963-2013
Yarmouth Port MA: Edward Gorey House 2013. Gorey Edward. Oblong octavo. 30ff. loose sheets. One of twenty-six lettered copies. An "appalling alphabet" of the dooms of twenty-six children ranging from Amy who falls down the stairs to Zillah who drinks to much gin. As in all lettered copies after the alphabet comes a reproduction of a cancelled image for "Fanny". Gorey's signature embossed on title and colophon cards. Housed in black four-flap case. Fine. Edward Gorey House unknown
Referência livreiro : 29582
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Exhibition catalog for Gorey Stories
Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts 1985. Gorey Edward. Quarto. 2ff. 1ff. insert. Signed by Gorey. Upper cover illustrated with a woman reading in bed. A selection of Gorey's books and drawings. The insert provides the "Gorey Details" of the themes and patterns of the exhibit. Slight bumps at corners else near fine. Errata slip laid in. Minneapolis Institute of Arts unknown
Referência livreiro : 29635
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Gorey Edward
Whatever Next Dogear Wryde Postcards
1990. Gorey Edward. First edition. One of 250 copies signed by Gorey. Set of twelve postcards housed in original illustrated envelope. With scenes including those of a lone shoe resting on a staircase a frying pan on the edge of a table and a small bottle standing on a mantle piece. All cards fine. Envelope has anticipated minor wrinkling else near fine. Toledano A102b. unknown
Referência livreiro : 29658
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Gorey Edward
The Retrieved Locket
N.p.: Fantod Press 1994. Gorey Edward. First edition. One of an edition of 526 copies signed by Gorey. Tells the story of the Fibleys' missing daughter Amelia Emily. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Toledano A112a. Fantod Press unknown
Referência livreiro : 29674
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Picture Book of Instruction and Amusement
London: A. Park 1840. Park Arthur. Quarto. 6ff. First and last page pasted to inside covers. Illustrated with sixteen handcolored lithographed engravings presumably by the publisher Arthur Park an engraver lithographer and artist who produced figures and scenes for juvenile toy theaters. He emigrated to America in 1842. The text covers the usual areas of moral instruction. Publisher's printed wrappers show light even soiling two-inch split to lower spine. A very good copy of an uncommon children's book with only five copies held in institutional collections. A. Park unknown
Referência livreiro : 29591
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Gorey Edward
F.M.R.A.
NY: Alpern 1980. Gorey Edward. First edition. One of 400 copies signed by Edward Gorey. A collection of ephemera containing thirty-two miscellaneous items including illustrations completed for The Atlantic and Esquire a Christmas card design featuring a robot and a copy of Gorey's first published illustration "Two Professors" which appeared on the front cover of the Harvard Advocate in September 1950. Loose as issued and housed in a beige clamshell box. Fine. Toledano A78b. Alpern unknown
Referência livreiro : 29604
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Souvenir de la Suisse
Zurich: J. H. Locher 1848. 48mo. 21ff. accordion-fold. A panorama of color illustrations for each of the twenty-two Swiss cantons. Each image depicts Swiss citizens in traditional garb and at work or leisure characteristic to their canton; two cantons Valais and Tessin share an illustration. Date derived from the year in which the Swiss constitution unified the various states into a single federal body. Tipped in to chemise with purple covers housed in matching slipcase. Cover of volume which features the coats of arms for the cantons as a border pasted to slipcase. Some edgewear to chemise and slipcase else fine. J. H. Locher unknown
Referência livreiro : 29683
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Gorey Edward
The Deadly Blotter. Thoughtful Alphabet XVII
N.p.: Fantod Press 1997. Gorey Edward. First edition. One of 750 copies signed by Gorey. An alphabetical murder mystery. Some sunning to illustrated wrappers else near fine. Fantod Press unknown
Referência livreiro : 29667
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Two Broadsides Advertising "Useful Urns
Provincetown MA: Provincetown Theater Company 1990. Gorey Edward. Two broadsides identical in design. Both signed by Gorey. These are alternate versions; the common version was issued both signed and numbered for sale to theater-goers. Because these especially the larger one are only signed it is likely that they were used as actual advertisements for the production. Faintest fading and single slight crease to head of larger sheet else a fine pair. Smaller measures 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 in.; 215x138 mm. Larger measures 10 7/8 by 8 7/16 in.; 277x215 mm. Provincetown Theater Company unknown
Referência livreiro : 29595
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Gorey Edward
Fletcher and Zenobia Save the Circus
NY: Dodd Mead 1971. Chess Victoria. First edition. Signed by Gorey. Illustrated with color plates and black & white line drawings by Victoria Chess. Slightest rubbing to spine ends else about fine in dust wrapper. Toledano A25. Dodd, Mead unknown
Referência livreiro : 29708
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Gorey Edward
The Unknown Vegetable
N.p.: Fantod Press 1995. Gorey Edward. First edition. One of 500 copies signed by Gorey. "There is a moral to this fable of an unknown vegetáble." Fine in illustrated wrappers. Toledano A114a. Fantod Press unknown
Referência livreiro : 29676
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Gorey Edward
The Loathsome Couple
NY: Dodd Mead 1977. Gorey Edward. First edition. One of 250 copies signed by Gorey. "This book may well prove to be its author's most unpleasant ever." Spine lightly toned else fine in a price-clipped minorly soiled dust jacket. Housed in a black slipcase. Toledano A67b. Dodd, Mead unknown
Referência livreiro : 29600
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Gorey Edward
The Tunnel Calamity
NY: Putnam 1984. Gorey Edward. First edition. Peepshow in color with nine bellows depicting the "unexpected appearance of the ULUUS" in a tunnel in which circulate a number of Gorey characters. A hint of soiling and rubs to corners else fine. Toledano A89. Putnam unknown
Referência livreiro : 29622
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Ross Clifford and Karen Wilkin
The World of Edward Gorey
NY: Abrams 1996. Gorey Edward. First edition. One of 300 copies signed by Edward Gorey Karen Wilkin and Clifford Ross. Contains an interview with Gorey conducted by Ross with analysis by art critic Wilkin and 200 illustrations of Gorey's work. Fine in an illustrated dust wrapper. Housed in a black cloth slipcase. Toledano p. 164. Abrams unknown
Referência livreiro : 29703
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Lear Edward
The Dong With a Luminous Nose
NY: Young Scott Books 1969. Gorey Edward. First edition. Signed by Gorey with full-page illustration. Near fine in pictorial boards and good dust wrapper with edgewear and mild toning to spine. Young Scott Books unknown
Referência livreiro : 29609
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Gorey Edward
The Gashlycrumb Tinies. 50th Anniversary Edition 1963-2013
Yarmouth Port MA: Edward Gorey House 2013. Gorey Edward. Oblong octavo. 29ff. loose sheets. One of 100 numbered copies. An "appalling alphabet" of the dooms of twenty-six children ranging from Amy who falls down the stairs to Zillah who drinks to much gin. Gorey's signature embossed on title and colophon cards. Housed in black four-flap case. Fine. Edward Gorey House unknown
Referência livreiro : 29583
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Eliot T. S.
Two Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats Calendars
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1995. Gorey Edward. Two octavo volumes. 96; 96pp. Both volumes signed by Gorey. Reprinted illustrations and selected verses from Gorey's rendition of T. S. Eliot's humorous lyrics on feline antics. Calendars are for the years 1991 and 1996. Idential pictorial cover except the 1991 calendar's is in blue and the 1996 calendar's is in yellow. Both spiral bound near fine. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich unknown
Referência livreiro : 29699
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Limericks for Book Week
NY: The Children's Book Council 1975. Gorey Edward. Octavo trifold brochure. Signed by Gorey. Gorey's illustrations adorn twenty-four clever limericks authored by Gorey Millicent Brower William Cole Mary Ann Hoberman and six others. Mild toning to uppermost portion else near fine. The Children's Book Council unknown
Referência livreiro : 29620
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Wagner Betty Jane
Limericks: Unexpurgated and Expurgated Editions
Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1973. Gorey Edward. Two square octavo volumes. 30pp. Both signed by Gorey. Printed in blue ink. A children's language-arts schoolbook with whimsical illustrations throughout by Edward Gorey collecting limericks by Edward Lear Ogden Nash Gorey himself and many others. The unexpurgated edition features two limericks and one illustration missing from the expurgated edition. Both in illustrated wrappers which are slightly toned to margins and fainly rubbed. Near fine. Toledano B56a B56b. Houghton Mifflin unknown
Referência livreiro : 29593
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Gorey Edward
The Water Flowers
NY: Congdon & Weed 1982. Gorey Edward. First edition. Signed by Gorey. The tale relates a "curious culinary adventure.and an instance of startling Sensibility" complete with familiar Gorey characters in fur coats and patterened frocks. In original dust wrapper slightly rubbed and faintly toned. A near fine book in very good wrappers. Toledano A84a. Congdon & Weed unknown
Referência livreiro : 29689
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Lear Edward
The Jumblies
NY: Young Scott 1968. Gorey Edward. First edition. Signed by Gorey. The first poem in Lear's Book of Nonsense adorned with illustrations which Gorey dedicated to Foss Lear's celebrated cat. Scant wear to extremities of pictorial boards fine. Some toning and minor rubbing to matching dust wrapper. Toledano B38a. Young Scott unknown
Referência livreiro : 29697
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Gorey Edward
Interpretive Series: Dogear Wryde Postcards
1979. Gorey Edward. First edition. A set of thirteen postcards in an envelope signed by Gorey. Each card features a creature interpreting amusing adjectives starting with the letter "I" such as "Indecency" "Inquisitiveness" and "Ineptitude". Envelope shows few wrinkles else near fine. Toledano A75b. unknown
Referência livreiro : 29656
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Gorey Edward
The Haunted Tea-Cosy: A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas
NY: Harcourt Brace 1997. Gorey Edward. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Gorey. In this yuletide tale Edmund Gravel the hermit of Lower Spigot is visited by the Bahhum Bug an admonitory insect who brings a number of Christmas ghosts in his train. Dickens à la Gorey. Fine in pictorial boards and illustrated dust wrapper price-clipped. Protected by a dark blue slipcase which only accompanies the limited issue. Harcourt Brace unknown
Referência livreiro : 29598
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Gorey Edward
The Stupid Joke by Eduard Blutig
N.p.: Fantod Press 1990. Gorey Edward. First edition. One of 500 copies signed by Gorey as the translator "Mrs Regera Dowdy". An homage to Mrs. Sherwood this is "Eduard Blutig's Der Stiefelknecht in a translation by Mrs Regera Dowdy with the original pictures by O. Müde" though all are in fact pseudonyms of Edward Gorey. Minor chip to head of spine else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Toledano A100. Fantod Press unknown
Referência livreiro : 29672
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Set of thirteen postcards for National Postcard Week
NY: Gotham Book Mart 1996. Gorey Edward. Thirteen distinct postcards issued by the Gotham Book Mart each featuring a characteristic Gorey figure: dancers bears cats and people in robust turtlenecks among others. All clean and fine. Gotham Book Mart unknown
Referência livreiro : 29644
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Gorey Edward
The Hapless Child
NY: Dodd Mead 1980. Gorey Edward. Octavo. 32ff. Reissue. Signed by Gorey. "An undiluted tragedy with a generous population of foul Small Creatures and a wickedly pleasurable Surprise for non-admirers of Miss Burnett." Some rubbing to extremities of book else near fine. In original purple dust wrapper which shows some shelf-toning and rubbing. Toledano A8a. Dodd, Mead unknown
Referência livreiro : 29603
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Announcement of Poets' Theatre: A Wake
Cambridge MA: Agassiz Theatre n.d. Gorey Edward. Broadside. Signed by Gorey. Illustrated with figures arising from coffins and floating in the air. The poets at the event included Wiliam Alfred Donald Hall Felicia Lamport and Alison Lurie. Fine. Agassiz Theatre unknown
Referência livreiro : 29636
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Gorey Edward
The Floating Elephant by Dogear Wryde / The Dancing Rock by Ogdred Weary
1993. Gorey Edward. A small oblong dos-à-dos flip book which shows as might be expected an elephant floating when opened from one side and a rock dancing when turned over and opened from the other. Signed twice on the verso of each cover by the artist Edward Gorey in his guises as "Dogear Wryde" and "Ogdred Weary" anagrams of his own name. Fine in off-white wrappers. Toledano A108b. unknown
Referência livreiro : 29666
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Gorey Edward
The Broken Spoke
NY: Dodd Mead 1976. Gorey Edward. First trade edition. Signed by Gorey. Illustrated throughout in color and black & white cleverly combining "two subjects of consuming interest": postcards and bicycles. Some wear to corners else near fine in very good dust wrapper. Dodd, Mead unknown
Referência livreiro : 29624
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Design Edith Pahlke
A Primer ON Water Questions And Answers
Minister Of Supply And SErvices 1991. Staple Bound. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Minister Of Supply And SErvices unknown
Referência livreiro : G066218582XI4N10 ISBN : 066218582X 9780662185826
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Society of News Design Staff
The Best of Newspaper Design
Quayside 2007. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Quayside hardcover
Referência livreiro : G1592533760I5N10 ISBN : 1592533760 9781592533763
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Douglas Norman Dust Wrapper design by Kuhlman Associates author photo by Isla
SOME LIMERICKS: COLLECTED FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS & ENSPLENDOUR'D WITH INTRODUC
Grove Press Inc 1967 New York 1967. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Grove Press Inc [1967], New York hardcover
Referência livreiro : GB002JSIOKYI3N00
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Grant Design Collaborative
1000 More Graphic Elements Vol. 3 : Unique Elements for Distinctive Designs
Quarto Publishing Group USA 2009. Paperback. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Quarto Publishing Group USA paperback
Referência livreiro : G1592535518I4N10 ISBN : 1592535518 9781592535514
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