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THE HAUNTED TEA-COSY
by Gorey, Edward
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in very good plus jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 0151004153
- ISBN 13
- 9780151004157
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1997. First printing. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. First edition of this "Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas," a late Gorey work illustrated in color. 7.25'' x 7.25''. Original color pictorial paper boards. In original unclipped ($15.00) pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Gorey in color. [64] pages. Light marginal toning and a bit of soil to jacket. Book top edge a trifle dusty. Tight.
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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- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50521
- Title
- THE HAUNTED TEA-COSY
- Author
- Gorey, Edward
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in very good plus jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0151004153
- ISBN 13
- 9780151004157
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- 20th century,Post-WWII,Christmas,US American,Art
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About the Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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