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Lot 47
Sale 5708 - Books and Manuscripts
Nov 16, 2023
11:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$800 -
1,200
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$1,197
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[Children's & Illustrated] Gorey, Edward: The Beastly Baby
Gorey, Edward
The Beastly Baby
No place: The Fantod Press, (1962). First edition (one of 500 copies printed). Square 24mo. Unpaginated. Signed by Gorey on title page as "Ogdred Weary". Stiff illustrated wrappers, very lightly soiled, spine lightly toned. Toledano A9a
Gorey's ninth book and the first published by The Fantod Press, his own publishing imprint. Rare when signed, this is only the third signed copy to appear at auction in the past nine years.