The Unstrung Harp
by Edward Gorey
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Dust Jacket Included
- Seller
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Flemington, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Little Brown, 1953 Book. Fine. Hardcover. F. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. First American. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gorey"s first book damp stain on jacket still a rare 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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- Bookseller
- Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000127
- Title
- The Unstrung Harp
- Author
- Edward Gorey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Edition
- F
- Publisher
- Little Brown, 1953
- Keywords
- FICTION EDWARD GOREY
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All books may be returned for any reason.
About the Seller
Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Flemington, New Jersey
About Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB
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