May 07, 2014 - Sale 2349

Sale 2349 - Lot 249

Price Realized: $ 832
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
GOREY, EDWARD. THE UNSTRUNG HARP; Or, Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel * The Listing Attic. Illustrated by Gorey. Together, 2 volumes. Tall 8vo, edges mildly rubbed otherwise much nicer than usually encountered; publisher's dust jackets, light edgewear; each with early neat owner's signature on endpaper (pencil and pen, respectively). New York and Boston: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, (1953); (1954)

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signed first editions of gorey's first and second books. Toledano A1a and A2a. Graham Greene wrote of The Unstrung Harp: "The best novel written about a novelist and I ought to know."