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THE UNSTRUNG HARP; OR, MR EARBRASS WRITES A NOVEL
by Gorey, Edward
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0151004358
- ISBN 13
- 9780151004355
- Seller
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Talent, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999. Reprint . Hardcover. Edward Gorey. First printing of the Harcourt Brace edition. Fne in fine dust jacket. A bright copy 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
- Robert Gavora, Fine and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27050
- Title
- THE UNSTRUNG HARP; OR, MR EARBRASS WRITES A NOVEL
- Author
- Gorey, Edward
- Illustrator
- Edward Gorey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0151004358
- ISBN 13
- 9780151004355
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Gorey, humor, illustrated
- Bookseller catalogs
- Various;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Robert Gavora, Fine and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2009
Talent, Oregon
About Robert Gavora, Fine and Rare Books
Robert Gavora, Fine and Rare Books has been a full-time mail order bookstore since 1984. Beginning with a small inventory of 400 books, we now have over 10,000 books. Though we do not have an open store, every year we exhibit at between 12 to 14 book fairs and events in the Western United States. All our books are listed on line and visitors are welcome by appointment.
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