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A Halloween Treat by Edward Gorey
$14.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
A Halloween Treat was published in Family Circle in the late 1980's and hasn't resurfaced since. This is that story's first appearance in book form. 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 mons ...Show more
Amphigorey: Fifteen Stories by Edward Gorey
$25.95 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Perigee Ser.
The title of this creepy collection of Gorey's work stems from the word amphigory, meaning a nonsense verse or composition. As always, Gorey's painstakingly cross- hatched pen and ink drawings are perfectly suited to his oddball verse and prose.
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot; Edward Gorey (Illustrator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 3-4, Age 8-9
Eliot's famous collection of nonsense verse about cats - the inspiration for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats.
Saint Melissa the Mottled by EDWARD GOREY
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Category: Display & Gift
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 migra ...Show more
The Doubtful Guest by EDWARD GOREY
$17.95 AUD
Category: Humour
Bloomsbury here provide a classic by Edward Gorey, master of the comic art and one of the most renowned cartoonists of our time.
The Epiplectic Bicycle by EDWARD GOREY
$17.95 AUD
Category: Humour
While Embley and Yewbert are hitting one another with croquet mallets one day, an untenanted bicycle rolls into their garden. This book chronicles their adventures across turnip fields, through barns and into bushes.
The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey
$27.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
The cult book by Edward Gore, the genius who inspired Tim Burton, Neil Gaiman and Guillermo Del Toro. The Gashlycrumb Tinies is a rhyming alphabet unlike any other: melancholy, strange and quite phantasmagorically witty. A is for AMY who fell down the stairs B is for BASIL assaulted by bears C is for ...Show more
The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey
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Category: Display & Gift
An alphabetical phantasmagoria in which a succession of infants meet dreadful ends.
The Glorious Nosebleed by EDWARD GOREY
$19.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
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.
The Lost Lions by EDWARD GOREY
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Category: Display & Gift
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. He flees the glitz and glamour, choosing his big cats over the ...Show more
The Object-Lesson by Edward Gorey
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Category: Humour
Inspired by Samuel Foote's poem, 'The Grand Panjandrum', The Object Lesson presents a stunning series of seemingly random and unrelated events. A missing artificial limb, ghostly spectres and the statue of Corrupted Endeavour all have a place in this enigmatic tale, which combines elements of French sur ...Show more
The Recently Deflowered Girl by EDWARD GOREY
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Category: Display & Gift
Long out of print, The Recently Deflowered Girl is a tongue-in-cheek guide providing advice for that trickiest of situations. In the voice of Miss Hyachinthe Phypps, Mel Juffe's hilarious yet demure counsel is delightfully accompanied by Edward Gorey's ink and watercolor illustrations.