BOOKS SEEM TO ME TO BE PESTILENT THINGS

by Edward Gorey, John Locke

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York: Gotham Book Mart , n.d. circa 1975? . Small folio sheet 45 x 36 cm, folded to 22.5 x 18 cm with 9 x 7 cm color drawing by Gorey and quote by John Locke. First edition. A keepsake suitable for framing or use as an oversized greeting card. The drawing shows a nefarious individual on the edge of a cliff, clasping an elephant folio to his breast, as another individual falls off the cliff. The seventy-word quote from

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