May 07, 2014 - Sale 2349

Sale 2349 - Lot 179

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
IN THE UNCOMMON SLIPCASE GOREY, EDWARD. GOREY IN A BOX: AMPHIGOREY * AMPHIGOREY TOO. Both volumes illustrated by Gorey. 4to, pictorial wrappers, mild edgewear; in the scarce gorey-in-a-box slipcase specially produced by Gotham Book Mart for the release of Putnam's Amphigorey Too and only sold at their New York store. The cover shows Gorey sitting in an open front wooden box in his usual outfit of fur coat and worn white sneakers, with a tortoiseshell cat voicing "Gorey-in-a-box," priced $11.95 lower right, light rubbing, otherwise unusually bright. First Putnam paperback edition of Amphigorey Too. Only Amphigorey is signed by gorey. Toledano A66. New York: G. B. Putnam's Sons, 1975; 1977