Edward Gorey

Wry, whimsical illustrations and cartoons by Edward Gorey

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Florida

Amphigorey Also

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Arkansas

The Haunted Looking Glass is the late Edward Gorey's selection of his favorite tales of ghosts, ghouls, and grisly goings-on. It includes stories by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, M. R. James, W. W. Jacobs, and L. P. Hartley, among other masters of the fine art of making the flesh creep, all accompanied by Gorey's inimitable illustrations.

ALGERNON BLACKWOOD, "The Empty House"
W.F. HARVEY, "August Heat"
CHARLES DICKENS, "The Signalman"
L.P. HARTLEY, "A Visitor from Down Under"
R.H. MALDEN, "The Thirteenth Tree"
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, "The Body-Snatcher"
E. NESBIT, "Man-Size in Marble"
BRAM STOKER, "The Judge's House"
TOM HOOD, "The Shadow of a Shade"
W.W. JACOBS, "The Monkey's Paw,"
WILKIE COLLINS, "The Dream Woman"
M.R. JAMES, "Casting the Runes"

The Haunted Looking Glass

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Iowa

A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas

Gorey has never been funnier or more "impossible to resist" (Boston Herald) than in this peculiar retelling of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.


The Haunted Tea-Cosy

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Gorey books

Sojourner Truth

Imani Perry

Kentucky

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Narrative of Sojourner Truth

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Excellent condition. Small tear at the top of the front cover. #paperback #fiction #classics #georgeeliot 

The lonely life of a miserly recluse is changed when he takes in an orphaned girl and raises her as his own daughter.

Silas Marner

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Tom Wolfe

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

• Book is in EXCELLENT Condition; Very Gently Used. 
• Clean: No page creases, markings, highlighting, etc. Binding is intact. 
Very small bend in lower right corner. 

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Specific imperfections are always noted. 

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Describes the escapades of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, a drug-saturated group of hippies who get in and out of trouble with the law.

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