Search Results: The Gashlycrumb Tinies Or, After the Outing by Edward Gorey

Harcourt Brace & Company, 1997. Later Edition. Other Hardcover. New (Condition varies from Fine to Near Fine. Please inquire as to specific condition)/Without DJ as issued. New

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New York: Dodd, Mead, ["]. Re-issued 1981, first printing, originally published in 1963. Text and illustrations by Edward Gorey. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Pictorial boards. Fine in fine pictorial dust jacket. Re-issued 1981, first printing, originally published in 1963. Text and illustrations by Edward Gorey. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Signed and inscribed on the title-page, "For Carol, Edward Gorey.

New York: Peter Weed Books, [1986] Illustrated by Gorey. First edition thus [originally published 1963]. Signed by Gorey on title page. Publisher's beige paper-covered boards, front board and spine lettered in black, Gorey illustrations to front and rear boards; in its original dust jacket with matching design. About fine book, with just a touch of rubbing to spine ends and board corners; a touch of rubbing to spine ends, else fine unclipped dust jacket. Overall, an excellent example. The Gashlycrumb Tinies is a morbid and satirical alphabet book, in which 26 children - each with names that represent a letter of the alphabet - die off one by one in various ways. The book progresses in rhyming couplets, like "Q is for Quentin who sank in a mire, R is for Rhoda consumed by a fire." The book, praised by Vanity Fair as one of Gorey's "dark masterpieces of surreal morality," is arguably Gorey's most famous work.. Signed. Hard Cover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Illus. by Gorey, Edward.

Simon and Schuster. Stated First Printing. No DJ as issued. Spine wear. Light soiling on cover. Internally Fine. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1963.