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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: The Object-Lesson. Front cover
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Edward Gorey

The Object-Lesson, 1958
NY: Doubleday
First edition.
1570
$ 25.00
Edward Gorey, The Object-Lesson, 1958
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Gorey's fourth book, "A Moral Tale about Nothing-at-All." Bound in pictorial boards, quite foxed and toned with sunned spine. Lacking dust wrapper. Signature of former owner at front flyleaf.
Gorey's fourth book, "A Moral Tale about Nothing-at-All." Bound in pictorial boards, quite foxed and toned with sunned spine. Lacking dust wrapper. Signature of former owner at front flyleaf.
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