THE SALT HERRING

by Edward Gorey, Charles Cros

$375 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition · Signed

New York: Gotham Book Mart & Gallery, Inc, 1971. Signed limited first edition thus, an out of sequence copy not signed or numbered on the limitation page, but instead signed by Gorey on the title page. Near fine. Item #20037 This poem was first composed in 1872 as Le Hareng saur, an unusual example of French nonsense verse – a genre much more popular in England than in France. As Scott Bates notes, if there is any

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