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An edition of The Doubtful Guest (1957)

The doubtful guest

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"When they answered the bell on that wild winter night, there was no one expected -- and no one in sight. Then they saw something standing on top of an urn, whose peculiar appearance gave them quite a turn..." Thus begins one of Edward Gorey's most popular illustrated books, The Doubtful Guest, a deliciously twisted comedy of manners, where a scarf and sneaker clad creature overstays its welcome by seventeen years in the home of a staid, Victorian family.
"An artist and writer of genius" (New Yorker) gives us a small-format edition of one of his favorite tales.

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Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Company
Language
English

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Subjects

Hospitality, Etiquette, Humor, Pictorial American wit and humor, Fiction, general, Fiction, humorous, general, Juvenile fiction, Pictorial Wit and humor

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1998, Harcourt Brace & Company
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1987, Dodd, Mead
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The Doubtful Guest
1986, Peter Weed Books
Hardcover in English
Cover of: The Doubtful Guest
The Doubtful Guest
1986, Peter Weed Books
Hardcover in English
Cover of: The Doubtful Guest
The Doubtful Guest
1978, Dodd, Mead
Hardcover in English
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The Doubtful Guest
1978, Dodd, Mead
Hardcover in English
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1973, Diogenes
in German
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Der zweifelhafte Gast
1961, Diogenes
Unknown format in German
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The doubtful guest
1958, Putnam
in English
Cover of: The Doubtful Guest
The Doubtful Guest
1957, Doubleday & Co.
Hardcover in English
Cover of: The Doubtful Guest
The Doubtful Guest
1957, Doubleday & Co.
Hardcover in English - [1st ed.]

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Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : Peter Weed Books, 1957.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3557.O753 D68 1998, PS3557.O753D68 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL355595M
ISBN 10
0151003130
LCCN
98015382
Library Thing
109820
Goodreads
654157

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL23653W

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When they answered the bell on that wild winter night, There was no one expected - and no one in sight.
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