Holyoke, MA: Columbia Publications Inc., 1942. First Edition. Scarce pulp which debuted as a one-shot magazine in September, 1941 under the title Black Hood Detective. The title quickly changed to Hooded Detective, running just two issues before switching to Crack Detective for several years. Aside from The Whispering Eye, a...... More
New York: Astor-Honor, Inc., [1968]. Reprint. 12mo. (15.5cm); pictorial card wrappers; [64]pp; illus. Gentle sunning to spine, light wear to wrappers, with a few stickers and rubber-stamps to inner rear wrapper reading "Union Street Museum Archive;" Very Good+. Issued as part of the four-volume set A Gorey Festival. Toledano A6d..... More
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, [1976]. First Collected Edition. Oblong octavo (14.75cm); pictorial card wrappers; unpaged; illus. Hint of toning to upper front wrapper, with a faint sticker shadow to same, else a Near Fine, virtually unrubbed copy. Three books in one, collecting Edward Lear's The Jumblies and The Dong..... More
New York: Adama Books, 1983 [but 1985]. First Edition Thus [First Trade Edition]. A Review Copy, with the publisher's slip laid in. 12mo. (15cm); laminated pictorial boards; [56]pp; illus. Some toning to two sides of the review slip; book is Fine, without dustjacket, as issued. An attractive abecedary, preceded by..... More
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New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2004. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Oblong octavo (14.75cm); glossy pictorial boards; illustrated endpapers; dustjacket; [44]pp; illus. Signed by Neumeyer on the title page. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $12.95). Reissue of this collaborative work by Neumeyer and Gorey, first published..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. First Edition. First Printing. Oblong quarto (17.25cm); pumpkin cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in purple on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; [32]pp; illus. Inscribed by Gorey on the title page in the year of publication: "6 December 1968 / For Jonathan..... More
[New York: Gotham Book Mart / Estate of Edward Gorey], 2001. First Edition. Attractive broadside, featuring a short poem by Gorey beneath an illustration of a large group of somber, ecclectically-dressed people. Issued as a keepsake for The Unknown Gorey exhibition at the Gotham Book Mart, December 5, 2001. Broadside..... More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc. / Gold Medal Books, 1956. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; [4],5-128pp. Light wear to extremities, subtle tanning to text edges, else Near Fine. Hubin, p.268. More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc. / Gold Medal Books, 1958. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; [4],5-143,[1]pp ads. Faint forward lean, light wear to extremities, with a tiny tear to upper front joint; Very Good+ or better. A Detective Peter Selby novel. Hubin..... More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc. / Gold Medal Books, 1957. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; [4],5-128pp. Faint forward lean, hint of "spidering" to laminate on rear wrapper, else Near Fine. Novel centered around a parolee, his beautiful wife, and a crooked parole..... More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc. / Gold Medal Books, 1958. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; yellow edge-staining; [6],7-157,[3]pp ads. Hint of a forward lean, subtle tanning to text edges, else Near Fine. The last of four novels Douglas would write for Gold..... More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc. / Gold Medal Books, 1957. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; [4],5-160pp. Pinpoint wear to extremities, a few faint stress creases to rear wrapper, else very Near Fine. The second of three paperback novels written by Frazee, centered..... More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc. / Gold Medal Books, 1957. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; yellow edge-staining; [4],5-159,[1]pp ads. Trivial wear to extremities, else very Near Fine. Fourth novel by this native New Mexico author, set in the Southwest. Hubin, p.72. More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc. / Gold Medal Books, 1958. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; yellow edge-staining; [4],5-190,[2]pp ads. Hint of a forward lean, some pinpoint wear to extremities, else Near Fine. First of three crime novels written by Race, a story..... More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc. / Gold Medal Books, 1958. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; yellow edge-staining; [8],9-141,[3]pp ads. Subtle tanning to text edges, else Fine and unread. One of two novels written by Evan Hunter under the Curt Cannon pseudonym - a...... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. First Edition. First Printing. Oblong octavo (15.25cm); pictorial paper-covered boards; dustjacket; [32]pp; illus. Hint of dustiness to upper and lower board edges, else Near Fine, and clean throughout. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), spine-sunned, dust-soiled, and lightly edgeworn, with some faint staining to..... More
New York: Harcourt, Inc., [2002]. First Edition Thus. First Printing, a Review Copy, with the publisher's publicity letter folded and laid in. Oblong octavo (14.5cm); pictorial boards; unpaged; illus. A Fine copy. Attractive reissue of this early work by Gorey, first published in 1958. More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2006. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Oblong octavo (15.75cm); pictorial paper-covered boards; dustjacket; unpaged; illus. Trivial wear to lower board edges, else Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $19.95). First one-volume edition of these three collaborative works between Heide and Gorey, first published..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1999. First Printing of this re-issue. Octavo (19.5cm); pictorial boards; dustjacket; [64]pp; illus. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $15). New edition of Gorey's first book, initially published in 1953 by Duell, Sloan and Pearce. More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1961. Early (unstated) printing. Small quarto (25cm); red paper-covered boards and yellow composition backstrip, with titling and decorative elements stamped in dark red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [7],8-63,[1]pp; illus. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, with some gentle sunning to spine. The first..... More
New York: Saturday Review Press / E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1974. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); orange paper-covered boards and light brown cloth, with titles stamped in orange on spine; dustjacket; [x],84,[2]pp; illus. Lower corners gently tapped (though still sharp), with a hint of foxing to upper..... More
New York: Young Scott Books, 1967. First Edition. First Printing. Oblong quarto (20.25cm); original pictorial "reinforced" binding; dustjacket; [48]pp; illus. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced $3.95), lightly edgeworn and a bit dusty overall, with a few tiny tears and a tiny nick to upper front flap fold..... More
New York: Random House, 1973. First Edition. A spare, suspenseful novel from the author's Appalachian period - the story of a murderer and necrophile who is outcast from his small community, and living with the decomposing bodies of his victims in the mountains and in an underground cave. Basis for..... More
Greenwich, CT: Gold Medal / Fawcett Publications Inc., 1965. First Edition. Late Thompson novel set in Texas, and centered around a con-man and his troublesome red-headed girlfriend. Hubin, p.393. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; [4],5-160pp. Trivial wear and dustiness to extremities, with subtle tanning..... More
Greenwich, CT: Gold Medal / Fawcett Publications Inc., 1964. First Edition. Basis for Bertrand Tavernier's French language adaptation Coup de Torchon, starring Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, and Stéphane Audran - an interesting adaptation which transports the novel's corrupt sheriff in the American South of 1910 to 1930's French West Africa..... More