May 07, 2014 - Sale 2349

Sale 2349 - Lot 195

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
GOREY, EDWARD. THE DOUBTFUL GUEST. Oblong 8vo, pictorial boards, some wear; dust jacket, toned at edges and a few cellotape repairs on verso; joints starting. first edition of one of gorey's most famous early works, signed by him in ink on title-page. Published while Gorey was working as an art editor at Doubleday. Toledano A3a. Garden City: Doubleday, 1957

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with--The first English Edition. Obong 8vo, pictorial boards, lightly soiled and rubbed along bottom edge; dust jacket, light wear, a few short tears repaired with cellotape on verso. Signed by Gorey on title-page. London: Putnam, (1958). Toledano A3b Der Zweifelhafte Gast. First Swiss [German language] Edition, translated by Fridolin Tschudi. Small oblong 8vo, turquoise, cream, and black laminated boards. Zurich: Diogenes, (1961). Toledano A3c.