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The Haunted Tea-Cosy: A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas
by Gorey, Edward
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0151004153
- ISBN 13
- 9780151004157
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
San Diego/New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Gorey, Edward. Originally published a year earlier in the New York Times Magazine, this is the FIRST EDITION, First Printing in book form, with appropriate letter line. This is an Ex-Lib copy, with 1 large stamp on ffep & stickers to exterior DJ, some partially removed. Otherwise, book is extraordinarily clean & crisp--obviously never circulated! Slim hardcover has decorative pink paper-over-boards with the same design as accompanying DJ. Completely clean, binding tight & square, pages white. Unclipped DJ is flawless, protected in library clear plastic coating which is permanently applied. Only flaw is this coating is peeling at lower spine-front cover where attempt was made to remove call number sticker. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive from us, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! All orders processed before 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time) ship same day; weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Synopsis
Gorey has never been funnier or more “impossible to resist” ( Boston Herald ) than in this peculiar retelling of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol .
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- Seller
- Gargoyle Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 016651
- Title
- The Haunted Tea-Cosy: A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas
- Author
- Gorey, Edward
- Illustrator
- Gorey, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0151004153
- ISBN 13
- 9780151004157
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & Company
- Place of Publication
- San Diego/New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- ILLUSTRATOR ILLUSTRATION HUMOR MACABRE ARTIST XMAS CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY EDWARD GOREy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Comic Art/Cartoons/Humor/Animation/Graphic Novels; Illustrated Books/Illustrators / Edward Gorey; Holiday-Halloween/Christmas/Hanukkah/Other;
Terms of Sale
Gargoyle Books
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About the Seller
Gargoyle Books
Biblio member since 2006
La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
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- Paper-Over-Boards
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- Letter line
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