THE SCHOOL-BOY
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879. First Edition. Octavo, ix, 79 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in the publisher's dark brown cloth bearing gilt lettering to the black and gilt pictorial spine. Boards have moderate wear including age darkened spine, minor chipping to the spine edges and some scuffs/marks. Beveled edges. Text block has all edges gilt. Pictorial end papers. Ex-library with several instances of markings/labeling to the interior, slight foxing to some pages and slight cracking to the gutters at the title page/rear end paper. Frontispiece. Gift inscription to the fly leaf and to the title page. Illustrated. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex, Column CC. More






![1412977 THE GLITTERING EDGE [Signed]. Alyssa Villaire](https://secondstorybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1412977.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781023851)





![1412194 THE GLORIOUS NOSEBLEED: FIFTH ALPHABET [Signed]. Edward Gorey](https://secondstorybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1412194.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779637056)
![1412189 THE VERY FINE CLOCK [Signed x2]. Muriel Spark, Edward Gorey](https://secondstorybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1412189.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779639224)
![1412181 THE DONG WITH A LUMINOUS NOSE [Signed by Gorey]. Edward Lear, Edward Gorey](https://secondstorybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1412181.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779638988)
![1412180 SAM AND EMMA [Signed by Don Nelson and Edward Gorey]. Donald Nelsen, Edward Gorey](https://secondstorybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1412180.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779638900)
![1412178 MORE OF BRER RABBIT'S TRICKS [Signed by Edward Gorey]. Ennis Rees, Edward Gorey](https://secondstorybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1412178.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779638692)
![1412177 MORE OF BRER RABBIT'S TRICKS [Signed by Edward Gorey]. Ennis Rees, Edward Gorey](https://secondstorybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1412177.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779638757)
![1412158 THE WILLOWDALE HANDCAR OR THE RETURN OF THE BLACK DOLL [Signed]. Edward Gorey](https://secondstorybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1412158.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779635506)
![1412147 LA BALADE TROUBLEANTE [Signed]. Edward Gorey](https://secondstorybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1412147.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779635460)
![1412143 THE RETRIEVED LOCKET [Signed]. Edward Gorey](https://secondstorybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1412143.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779636135)
![1412140 THE JUST DESSERT: THOUGHTFUL ALPHABET XI [Signed]. Edward Gorey](https://secondstorybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1412140.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779635793)
![1412137 THE GRAND PASSION; THE DUTIFUL DOMESTICITY [Signed] [Two Volumes]. Edward Gorey](https://secondstorybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1412137.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779638119)
![1412136 THE HELPLESS DOORKNOB: A SHUFFLED STORY [Signed]. Edward Gorey](https://secondstorybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1412136.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779638186)



![1412086 FLETCHER AND ZENOBIA SAVE THE CIRCUS [Signed]. Edward Gorey, Victoria Chess](https://secondstorybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1412086.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779636617)
![1412049 L'HEURE BLEUE [Signed]. Edward Gorey](https://secondstorybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1412049.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779636085)
![1412039 THE JUMBLIES [Signed by Gorey]. Edward Lear, Edward Gorey](https://secondstorybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1412039.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779634916)
![1412030 THE WUGGLY UMP [Signed]. Edward Gorey](https://secondstorybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1412030.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779636210)
![1412023 STORIES FOR SARA: WHAT HAPPENED TO A LITTLE GIRL [Signed x2]. Alphonse Allais, Edward Gorey](https://secondstorybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1412023.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779636430)
![1412016 THE SINKING SPELL [Signed]. Edward Gorey](https://secondstorybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1412016.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779635711)
![1412014 THE FATAL LOZENGE [Signed]. Edward Gorey](https://secondstorybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1412014.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779635608)
![1412008 THE SOPPING THURSDAY [Signed x2]. Edward Gorey](https://secondstorybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1412008.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779637375)
![1412007 LIONS AND LOBSTERS AND FOXES AND FROGS: FABLES FROM AESOP [Signed by Gorey]. Ennis Rees,...](https://secondstorybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1412007.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779635909)

![1411988 THE CATAFALQUE WORKS [9 Vol., Complete] [including] THE GLORIOUS NOSEBLEED, FIFTH...](https://secondstorybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1411988.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779203759)


![1411925 THE REMEMBERED VISIT [Signed]. Edward Gorey](https://secondstorybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1411925.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779636931)
![1411923 THE BROKEN SPOKE [Signed]. Edward Gorey](https://secondstorybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1411923.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779639934)
![1411922 THE BROKEN SPOKE [Signed]. Edward Gorey](https://secondstorybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1411922.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779636800)