The Christmas Bower, Polly Redford, Edward Gorey, 1967, 1st US Ed., Fine w/NF DJ

Redford, Polly, and Edward Gorey (Drawings). The Christmas Bower (New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1967).

English, First U.S. Edition, a Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket, Fine overall, HC, 8vo, 8" x 5 3/4," 192 pp., including illustrations.

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First U.S. Edition. Fine green cloth-covered boards. Covers pristine and intact, binding tight, sharp tips. Near Fine multicolored pictorial paper dust jacket with orange-red lettering on front and spine. Dust jacket has light age toning and may be price-clipped (front flap missing two corners on right edge), else pristine and intact, protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. Pages have light age toning, else pristine and intact. Includes charming black-and-white illustrations by Edward Gorey. A playful, humorous yarn about a young boy named Noah Kubicheck, who, in being tasked with decorating the family store for Christmas, asks his Uncle Willie, Curator of Birds at the Museum of Natural History, for help. Excerpt from front flap: "Even [Uncle Willie] didn't foresee just how hopelessly (and riotously) entangled biology and merchandising could become." This novel is also the result of a collaboration between Polly Redford and Edward Gorey who were high-school classmates.