The Secrets: Volume 1: The Other Statue, Edward Gorey, 1968, Near Fine & DJ

Gorey, Edward, New York, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968, Near Fine, 6 ¾” x 7 ¼”, 4to, 64 pp.

Near Fine quarto with black-and-white images and black lettering to covers and spine, slight staining along top edge, book plate of previous store on back pastedown. Near Fine dust jacket, black-and-white images with black lettering to covers and spine, sunning along edges, slight closed tear to bottom of front cover and top of back cover, 64 pp. Includes full-page black-and-white illustrations. A first edition copy. At Mortshire’s charity fête, Lord Wherewithal is dead, a scandalous flirtation unfolds, and the Earl of Thump’s stuffed thisby is grotesquely defiled in Gorey’s latest dark tale.