The Water Flowers
by Gorey, Edward
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0312929285
- ISBN 13
- 9780312929282
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Congdon & Weed, Inc. Fine+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1982. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. 0312929285 . Hardcover with dustjacket. First edition. Pictorial boards, clean and sharp. Protected, unclipped, dustjacket is bright and crisp, minimal age toning to flaps' edges. Book is firm in binding, b&w plates on every leaf, by Edward Gorey, crisp interior. A tight, clean copy. Free of any markings, not ex-library.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Unpaginated pages .
Synopsis
" A curious culinary adventure incorporating a caveat against Lesser Literature and an instance of startling sensibility" This Gorey story maintains the expected atmosphere of quiet distress and morbid humor as an Edwardian woman, lost in her book, realizes the house is empty of food.
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Details
- Bookseller
- KULTURAs books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13962
- Title
- The Water Flowers
- Author
- Gorey, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- Stated First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0312929285
- ISBN 13
- 9780312929282
- Publisher
- Congdon & Weed, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- 0312929285, Humor. Food - Fiction. The Unstrung Harp. The Insect God.
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- Jacket
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- Good+
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- First Edition
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- 12mo
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- Edges
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