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Product Description: In A Halloween Treat, kids and cats go trick or treating, and gather loot that might be tricks--or perhaps the best treat imaginable: their very own monsters. A short vignette, published in book form for the very first time, it will be an undiscovered delight for Gorey fanatics...read more
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9781608196166 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, September 4, 2012, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: In A Halloween Treat, kids and cats go trick or treating, and gather loot that might be tricks--or perhaps the best treat imaginable: their very own monsters.

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Product Description: Saint Melissa was canonized not for her performance of healing miracles and martyrdom, but despite (or because of?) her Miracles of Destruction—rough-and-tumble hijinks and dabbles in the supernatural. Instead of the skills proper young ladies studied, Saint Melissa was adept at the bringing on of migraines, the refinement of lust, and the involutions of penmanship and calligrams...read more
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9781608198856 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, October 30, 2012, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Saint Melissa was canonized not for her performance of healing miracles and martyrdom, but despite (or because of?

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9780764963360 | Pomegranate, September 1, 2012, cover price $14.95

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9780764963353 | Pomegranate, September 1, 2012, cover price $12.95

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9780764960697 | Min edition (Pomegranate, July 1, 2012), cover price $7.99

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9780764960864 | Wal edition (Pomegranate, July 1, 2012), cover price $13.99

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Product Description: The Naming of Dogs is a difficult matter, as Ogden and his big brother discover in this most charming of collaborations between Rhoda Levine and Edward Gorey. You see, the sheepdog was sitting patiently in the back yard when the family moved in...read more
By Edward Gorey (illustrator)
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9781590175156 | New York Review of Books, August 7, 2012, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The Naming of Dogs is a difficult matter, as Ogden and his big brother discover in this most charming of collaborations between Rhoda Levine and Edward Gorey.

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Product Description: Meet Donald, a little boy who has little adventures that to him are very big indeed.In Donald and the . . ., Donald finds a crawly creature. His mother lets him keep it in a jar, but soon it disappears. Donald takes to bed with painful ribs...read more
By Edward Gorey (illustrator) and Peter F. Neumeyer
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9780764961304, titled "Donald and the... & Donald Has a Difficulty: Donald and the . . . & Donald Has a Difficulty" | Pomegranate, March 15, 2012, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Meet Donald, a little boy who has little adventures that to him are very big indeed.

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A trilogy of classic tales for all ages featuring a little boy named Treehorn includes The Shrinking of Treehorn, in which a young boy who believes he is shrinking has difficulty convincing his parents and friends of his problem; Treehorn's Wish, in which he uses a genie and his wishes to turn his birthday upside down; and Treehorn's Treasure, in which the leaves on a backyard tree are transformed into dollar bills.
By Edward Gorey (illustrator) and Florence Parry Heide
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9780810959941 | Harry N Abrams Inc, June 1, 2006, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Collects the stories of Treehorn, a boy to whom very strange things keep happening which adults, from his parents to the meter reader, do not seem to think are noteworthy.

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Product Description: Fetching young Hamish prefers life in the great outdoors. One day he mistakenly opens an envelope, which leads to movie stardom and sudden wealth. He buys property and begins raising lions, but soon the celebrity life gets the better of him...read more
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9780764959578 | Pomegranate, September 15, 2011, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Fetching young Hamish prefers life in the great outdoors.

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Product Description: The Treehorn Trilogy contains three well-loved stories chronicling the trials of Treehorn, a young boy with a talent for getting into and out of (and sometimes right back into) unusual situations. The Shrinking of Treehorn finds him growing down instead of growing up; in Treehorn’s Treasure, he puts a creative spin on an adage spoken by his father; and a genie adds some befuddlement to the boy’s birthday in Treehorn’s Wish...read more
By Edward Gorey (illustrator) and Florence Parry Heide
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9780764959585 | Pomegranate, September 15, 2011, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The Treehorn Trilogy contains three well-loved stories chronicling the trials of Treehorn, a young boy with a talent for getting into and out of (and sometimes right back into) unusual situations.

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Product Description: The Gashlycrumb Tinies, an abecedary from the hand of Edward Gorey (American, 1925–2000)—and probably his most famous book—details in rhymed iambic pentameter the fates of twenty-six young people. None came to a happy end. So it often was with Mr...read more
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9780764956850 | Wal edition (Pomegranate, July 1, 2011), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: The Gashlycrumb Tinies, an abecedary from the hand of Edward Gorey (American, 1925–2000)—and probably his most famous book—details in rhymed iambic pentameter the fates of twenty-six young people.

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Product Description: The illustrated texts of Edward Gorey often guide the reader to the point just before a crescendo of events and then let the imagination draw the ominous or hilarious conclusions. The twenty-six images in this calendar include illustrations from The Fantod Pack and a number of Gorey’s books—among them The Doubtful Guest, The Other Statue, The Awdrey-Gore Legacy, Verse Advice, and The Gashlycrumb Tinies—as well as an entertaining assortment of enigmas, cats, and holiday images...read more
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9780764957000 | Egmt edition (Pomegranate, July 1, 2011), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: The illustrated texts of Edward Gorey often guide the reader to the point just before a crescendo of events and then let the imagination draw the ominous or hilarious conclusions.

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Product Description: A sequel to The Jumblies, in which the titular clan “went to sea in a Sieve,” survived turbulent waters, and lingered in a faraway land, The Dong with a Luminous Nose is Edward Lear’s great ode to abiding, eternal love. A figure marked by fate, the Dong suffers so when his Jumbly sweetheart abandons him that he loses his reason, fashions a false nose of Twangum wood, affixes a lamp to the nose, and wanders the Bong woods and Chankly Bore plains, hoping for a chance meeting with his vanished love...read more
By Edward Gorey (illustrator)
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9780764956843 | Min wal edition (Pomegranate, July 1, 2011), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: A sequel to The Jumblies, in which the titular clan “went to sea in a Sieve,” survived turbulent waters, and lingered in a faraway land, The Dong with a Luminous Nose is Edward Lear’s great ode to abiding, eternal love.

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Product Description: It's all dark!What happened to the light?Why is everything black?Do you know?In this curious tale, four children, accompanied by their faithful cat, stumble around in the dark and ask, “What's going on when the lights go out?” A lot of imagination and a little bit of science (cue a flashlight and an orange) inspire a creative conclusion...read more
By Edward Gorey (illustrator) and Peter F. Neumeyer
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9780764958861 | Pomegranate, March 15, 2011, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: It's all dark!

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9780884961741 | Capra Pr, November 1, 1982, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Day and night and the earth's rotation are explained in an imaginative way for the very young reader

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Product Description: Great-Uncle Franz, beside the lake,Is being strangled by a snake.The peaches, apples, plums, and pearsAre guarded by ferocious bears.Alexa watches while her auntIs pulled feet first inside a plant.A happy, naive family enters the Evil Garden (free admission!) to spend a sunny afternoon in its inviting landscape, lush with exotic trees and flowers...read more
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9780764958854 | Pomegranate, March 15, 2011, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Great-Uncle Franz, beside the lake,Is being strangled by a snake.

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Product Description: Three timeless favorites—Little Red Riding Hood, Jack the Giant-Killer, and Rumpelstiltskin—come together in this enchanting collection of read-aloud fun. Illustrated in charming detail by Edward Gorey and retold with engaging wit by James Donnelly, these unique renditions offer a fresh take on age-old tales...read more
By James Donnelly and Edward Gorey (illustrator)
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9780764955464 | Pomegranate, September 15, 2010, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Three timeless favorites—Little Red Riding Hood, Jack the Giant-Killer, and Rumpelstiltskin—come together in this enchanting collection of read-aloud fun.

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Product Description: Rose Marshmary, Mary Rosemarsh, and Marsh Maryrose are three cousins who star in this morbidly amusing tale of misfortune at the marsh. The Deranged Cousins, one of Edward Gorey's most popular stories, brings each to an untimely demise, with key roles played by a seemingly innocuous old doorknob, leftover vanilla extract, and an unusually high tide...read more
By Edward Gorey (illustrator)
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9780764952449 | Wal edition (Pomegranate, July 1, 2010), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Rose Marshmary, Mary Rosemarsh, and Marsh Maryrose are three cousins who star in this morbidly amusing tale of misfortune at the marsh.

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Product Description: Creator of more than one hundred written and illustrated works, Edward Gorey designed the animated opening sequence for the PBS television series Mystery!, won Tony Awards for his very successful Broadway revival of Dracula, and crafted darkly hilarious vignettes featuring a broad cast of characters and enigmatic animals in vaguely Victorian settings...read more
By Edward Gorey (other contributor)
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9780764953132 | Egmt edition (Pomegranate, July 1, 2010), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Creator of more than one hundred written and illustrated works, Edward Gorey designed the animated opening sequence for the PBS television series Mystery!

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Product Description: Some Gorey enthusiasts believe there is more to his many works than meets the eye. This delightful Osbick Bird tale just might be about an artist and his muse (the two frequently harmonize, engage in game-playing, and revert to long silences)...read more
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9780764952432 | Min wal edition (Pomegranate, July 1, 2010), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Some Gorey enthusiasts believe there is more to his many works than meets the eye.

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Product Description: Wickedly funny and delightfully sad, Three Ladies Beside the Sea is a tale of love found, love lost, and love never-ending. Edward Gorey’s off-kilter Edwardian maidens are the perfect accompaniment to Rhoda Levine’s lilting rhymes...read more
By Edward Gorey (illustrator)
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9781590173541 | New York Review of Books, July 13, 2010, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Wickedly funny and delightfully sad, Three Ladies Beside the Sea is a tale of love found, love lost, and love never-ending.

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Product Description: Miss D. Awdrey-Gore, renowned 97-year-old writer of detective stories, is found murdered; then a mysterious hidden packet is discovered. Addressed to her publisher, it contains what appear to be notes and drawings related to a literary work in progress...read more
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9780764955099 | Pomegranate, June 15, 2010, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Miss D.
9780926637122 | Reprint edition (Peter Weed, September 1, 1988), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A Mobius mystery.

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Product Description: The Glorious Nosebleed trips through the alphabet with illustrations that are both strikingly funny, and a bit weird, all the way from "She wandered among the trees Aimlessly" to "He wrote it all down Zealously." A classic of Gorey's imaginative and darkly humorous mind.
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9780926637030 | Peter Weed, September 1, 1986, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: The Glorious Nosebleed trips through the alphabet with illustrations that are both strikingly funny, and a bit weird, all the way from "She wandered among the trees Aimlessly" to "He wrote it all down Zealously.
9780825304095 | Reprint edition (Congdon & Weed, September 1, 1986), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The Glorious Nosebleed trips through the alphabet with illustrations that are both strikingly funny, and a bit weird, all the way from "She wandered among the trees Aimlessly" to "He wrote it all down Zealously.

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Product Description: “One of Mr. Gorey’s wordless masterworks.”—New York Times Edward Gorey’s The West Wing is an invitation to the imagination. On each page, a room beckons, inviting the reader to wonder why three shoes lie here abandoned, what is retreating in that mirror’s reflection, or why there is an imprint of a body on the wallpaper, faded and floating four feet above the floor...read more
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9781608190645 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, November 10, 2009, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: “One of Mr.

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Product Description: An infectiously funny guide to post-deflowerment decorum, with illustrations by a master of the absurd. For more than half a century Miss Hyacinthe Phypps has been offering guidance on proper behavior. Her simple rules of propriety and common sense have helped a generation of girls over the threshold to womanhood...read more
By Edward Gorey (illustrator) and Hyacinthe Phypps
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9781608190621 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, November 10, 2009, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: An infectiously funny guide to post-deflowerment decorum, with illustrations by a master of the absurd.

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