The Broken Spoke (Signed)
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1976). First edition. Drawings by Gorey, some color. Hardcover. Oblong duodecimo. [64] pages. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.Tiny extremity rubs to corner tips. Jacket has a cleanly closed 1" tear along lower fore edge fold, a 1/4" closed tear at top edge of rear panel. and a few tiny extremity rubs.
A collection of Edward Gorey's drawings relating to bicycling From the dust jacket, "This book combines, with breath-taking cleverness, two objects of consuming interest: postcards and bicycles." The endpapers advertise the contents as "Cycling Cards, from the pen of Dogear Wryde"--the latter being an anagram of Gorey's name, of course.
This copy is signed by Gorey above his lined-out name at top of the title page.
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