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The unstrung harp;: Or, Mr. Earbrass writes a novel
by Gorey, Edward
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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About This Item
Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. Signed by Author. Signed by Edward Gorey on title page. First edition, first printing, published by Duell, Sloan, and Pearce in 1953. Hardcover in jacket, price of $2.00 intact on jacket flap, over pictorial boards. Some rubbing and a few small chips to jacket edge. Text is clean and unmarked. Some toning to pages, a few instances of foxing in the margins. Binding strong. Light edge wear to boards. Presents well in fresh Mylar. Very good condition. Additional photos available upon request. All of our books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box.
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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- The Bookman & The Lady
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 230809001
- Title
- The unstrung harp;: Or, Mr. Earbrass writes a novel
- Author
- Gorey, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Duell, Sloan and Pearce
- Date Published
- 1953
- Size
- 0x0x0
- Weight
- 2.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed First Edition;
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