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The Curious Sofa - Edward
                    Gorey

The illustrated copy is the 1961 first edition

The Curious Sofa

First edition: 1961 New York: Obolensky
Paperback under the pseudonym 'Ogdred Weary', an anagram of his name. All copies of this mass market edition
claim to be 'copy no 83 of an edition limited to 212 copies'.

Reprinted the same year.

Other English editions:

1968 New York Astor-Honor Paperback Part of the four volume set "A Gorey Festival".
1980 New York Dodd, Mead Hard Cover
1986 New York Beaufort Hard Cover
1988 San Miguel de Allende
Pequeno Paperback Miniature book (with The Willowdale Handcar and The Sinking Spell)
1999 London Bloomsbury Paperback Reprinted in hard cover the same year

Foreign Language editions:

1964 Zurich Diogenes Hard Cover (no dj)
German edition of 3,000 copies. Reprinted the same year.
1971 Zurich Diogenes Hard Cover (no dj)
German
1980 Zurich Diogenes Hard Cover
German (with The Doubtful Guest, The Bug Book and The Gashlycrumb Tinies)
1981 Zurich Diogenes Paperback
German (Sold separately and in the boxed set Die wahnsinnigen Werke)
1987 East Berlin
Volk und Welt
Paperback German
1995 Paris Galimard, Le Promeneur
Paperback
French
2006 Seoul Mimesis Hard Cover
Korean
2008 Prague Dokoran Hard Cover
Czech

Anthologies:

1972 New York Putnam Hard Cover and Paperback
Amphigorey - multiple editions q.v.
1973 Zurich Diogenes Hard Cover
Der zweifelhafte Gast - German edition of 10,000 copies (including paperbacks)
1973 Zurich Diogenes Paperback
Der zweifelhafte Gast - German edition of 10,000 copies (including hard covers)
1994 Zurich Diogenes Paperback
Der zweifelhafte Gast - German

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