Case Record From a Sonnetorium
- SIGNED
- New York: Twayne Publishers, 1951
New York: Twayne Publishers, 1951. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1951. First edition. Octavo (23.5cm); unpaginated. Publisher's gray cloth binding with unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Edward Gorey. Dust jacket has rubbing on edges with chips to crown and foot of spine. Board corners bumped, cloth clean and bright. Pencil erasure on top corner of front free endpaper. Pages unmarked. Binding sound. A very good copy in like jacket.
Signed with inscription on front free endpaper by poet Merrill Moore to Columbua University professor, Mario Pei: "Inscribed for Professor Mario Pei with compliments, Merrill Moore, Boston 1952." This was the third collaboration between illustrator Edward Gorey and poet Merrill Moore, the first one being 1950's "Clinical Notes," which was Gorey's first commercially published book. Goreyography, B3.
Signed with inscription on front free endpaper by poet Merrill Moore to Columbua University professor, Mario Pei: "Inscribed for Professor Mario Pei with compliments, Merrill Moore, Boston 1952." This was the third collaboration between illustrator Edward Gorey and poet Merrill Moore, the first one being 1950's "Clinical Notes," which was Gorey's first commercially published book. Goreyography, B3.