The Utter Zoo
by Gorey, Edward
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Meredith Press, 1967. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Small slim hardcover bound in white printed paper covered boards in original non price-clipped dust-jacket with matching art work. Unpaginated. Illustrated with captioned drawings printed on rectos only. Stated first edition. A fantastical bestiary with creatures depicted from A to Z, beginning with the Ampoo and ending with the Zote. No previous ownership marks. Incidental age soiling to white jacket, which has one small tear to lower front cover, now tape repaired on verso and nearly invisible. A clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy in a nice dust-jacket. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019473
- Title
- The Utter Zoo
- Author
- Gorey, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Publisher
- Meredith Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- Edward Gorey
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
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Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...