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THE UNSTRUNG HARP;: Or, Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel
by Gorey, Edward
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good +/very good
- Seller
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Lawrence, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York / Boston: Duell, Sloan, & Pierce / Little, Brown, 1953. Stated First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. Gorey. Sm 8vo. Illustrated boards. Maroon end papers. [unpaginated] Toledano A1a. Slight wear to bottom edges. Prior owner's name on Front Free End Paper. Illustrated dust-jacket (with price clipped) has slight wear to spine ends and corners, and is missing a small chip (5/8" X 1/4") at bottom of front panel (not affecting lettering). Small tape reinforcement on back of dust-jacket, at top of spine.
The stated first edition, in original dust-jacket, of Gorey's first book.
The stated first edition, in original dust-jacket, of Gorey's first book.
Synopsis
On November 18th of alternate years Mr Earbrass begins writing 'his new novel.' Weeks ago he chose its title at random from a list of them he keeps in a little green note-book. It being tea-time of the 17th, he is alarmed not to have thought of a plot to which The Unstrung Harp might apply, but his mind will keep reverting to the last biscuit on the plate." So begins what the Times Literary Supplement called "a small masterpiece." TUH is a look at the literary life and its "attendant woes: isolation, writer's block, professional jealousy, and plain boredom." But, as with all of Edward Gorey's books, TUH is also about life in general, with its anguish, turnips, conjunctions, illness, defeat, string, parties, no parties, urns, desuetude, disaffection, claws, loss, trebizond, napkins, shame, stones, distance, fever, antipodes, mush, glaciers, incoherence, labels, miasma, amputation, tides, deceit, mourning, elsewards. You get the point. Finally, TUH is about Edward Gorey the writer, about Edward Gorey writing The Unstrung Harp. It's a cracked mirror of a book, and it's dedicated to RDP or Real Dear Person.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Waugh Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5727
- Title
- THE UNSTRUNG HARP;
- Author
- Gorey, Edward
- Illustrator
- Gorey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Stated First edition
- Publisher
- Duell, Sloan, & Pierce / Little, Brown
- Place of Publication
- New York / Boston
- Date Published
- 1953
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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