![]() ![]() ![]() The publisher's statement "Arranged for Modern Reading" indicates that the novel is abridged. ![]() With all of the first edition points: The "First Centennial Edition" stated on the copyright page, the $5.00 price on the dust wrapper front flap, the word "Doubleday" at the foot of the book's spine, and with the 13 page Introduction by Donal Friede. The exceedingly rare FIRST CENTENNIAL EDITION ILLUSTRATED BY EDWARD GOREY. (xxvii), & 593 pages, with 79 black & white illustrations including a frontispiece by Edward Gorey. The jacket is slightly soiled with a short tear to the bottom of it's rear panel and a chip out from the head of the spine. The dust jacket's spine is slightly darkened. First page of textThe novels opening page is especially memorable, with its image of London imbued with mud, and swathed in fog, and of a great megalosaurus. Hardcover, bound in tan cloth backed with a black cloth spine, titled in white on the spine, in the rare pictorial dust wrapper with black, white & golden yellow illustrations by Edward Gorey on the front panel and on the spine. RARE FIRST GOREY EDITION OF BLEAK HOUSE - Octavo, 8-1/2 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. ![]()
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