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Auction archive: Lot number 142

Nine books illustrated by Edward Gorey

Estimate
US$500 - US$800
Price realised:
US$312
Auction archive: Lot number 142

Nine books illustrated by Edward Gorey

Estimate
US$500 - US$800
Price realised:
US$312
Beschreibung:

Nine books illustrated by Edward Gorey Author: Gorey, Edward Date Published: 1962-1982 Description: 9 volumes. All volumes illustrated (some in color), in publisher's bindings. Collection of books illustrated by Edward Gorey. Dancing Cats and Neglected Murderesses is signed by Gorey. Lot includes: Gorey, Edward. The Willowdale Handcar: Or the Return of the Black Doll. Indianapolis/New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1962. Rees, Ennis. Lions and Lobsters and Foxes and Frogs. Reading, Mass.: Young Scott Books, 1971. Drawings by Edward Gorey. 1 cm tear to jacket front. Rumpelstiltskin: A Tale Told Long Ago by The Grimm Brothers. New York: Scholastic Book Services, 1973. Retold by Edith H. Tarcov. Pictures by Edward Gorey. Gorey, Edward. The Glorious Nosebleed. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1974. Dust jacket unevenly sunned, tape repair top spine tip. Moss, Howard. Instant Lives. New York: Saturday Review Press/E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1974. Drawings by Edward Gorey. First Edition. Jacket unevenly toned, price clipped. Gorey, Edward. The Broken Spoke. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1976. Jacket and boards lightly worn, tape repair to verso of front jacket, volume leaning. Evans, Larry.. San Francisco: Troubador Press, 1979. Based on the works of Edward Gorey. Inscribed by Evans on verso of cover. Edgewear, creasing to bottom right corner of cover and first two leaves. Gorey, Edward. Dancing Cats and Neglected Murderesses. New York: Workman Publishing, 1980. Signed by Gorey at title page. Lamport, Felicia. Light Metres. New York: Perigee Books, 1982. Drawings by Edward Gorey. Sketch of heart on front free endpaper. Spine sunned. Also included is a card autographed by Hall of Fame pitcher Robert William Andrew Feller (signed "Bob Feller") from about 1995, not authenticated and sold as-is. Condition: Most with minor wear, from very good to near fine. Item#: 338270 Headline: 9 illustrated by Edward Gorey

Auction archive: Lot number 142
Auction:
Datum:
4 May 2023
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Nine books illustrated by Edward Gorey Author: Gorey, Edward Date Published: 1962-1982 Description: 9 volumes. All volumes illustrated (some in color), in publisher's bindings. Collection of books illustrated by Edward Gorey. Dancing Cats and Neglected Murderesses is signed by Gorey. Lot includes: Gorey, Edward. The Willowdale Handcar: Or the Return of the Black Doll. Indianapolis/New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1962. Rees, Ennis. Lions and Lobsters and Foxes and Frogs. Reading, Mass.: Young Scott Books, 1971. Drawings by Edward Gorey. 1 cm tear to jacket front. Rumpelstiltskin: A Tale Told Long Ago by The Grimm Brothers. New York: Scholastic Book Services, 1973. Retold by Edith H. Tarcov. Pictures by Edward Gorey. Gorey, Edward. The Glorious Nosebleed. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1974. Dust jacket unevenly sunned, tape repair top spine tip. Moss, Howard. Instant Lives. New York: Saturday Review Press/E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1974. Drawings by Edward Gorey. First Edition. Jacket unevenly toned, price clipped. Gorey, Edward. The Broken Spoke. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1976. Jacket and boards lightly worn, tape repair to verso of front jacket, volume leaning. Evans, Larry.. San Francisco: Troubador Press, 1979. Based on the works of Edward Gorey. Inscribed by Evans on verso of cover. Edgewear, creasing to bottom right corner of cover and first two leaves. Gorey, Edward. Dancing Cats and Neglected Murderesses. New York: Workman Publishing, 1980. Signed by Gorey at title page. Lamport, Felicia. Light Metres. New York: Perigee Books, 1982. Drawings by Edward Gorey. Sketch of heart on front free endpaper. Spine sunned. Also included is a card autographed by Hall of Fame pitcher Robert William Andrew Feller (signed "Bob Feller") from about 1995, not authenticated and sold as-is. Condition: Most with minor wear, from very good to near fine. Item#: 338270 Headline: 9 illustrated by Edward Gorey

Auction archive: Lot number 142
Auction:
Datum:
4 May 2023
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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