There Once Was a Family ....

GOREY, Edward.

THE DWINDLING PARTY [A Pop-Up Book].

New York: Random House, 1982. Tall octavo. Laminated pictorial boards, all art work and rhymes by Gorey; six pop-up illustrations, paper engineering by Ib Penick. Small pinch at top of spine, else a very good copy of a book intended to be shared with children - children with a macabre sense of humor, no doubt. 

First edition. "There once was a family whose name was MacFizzet / (Two parents, five children) who only last fall / Put on their best clothes and then set out to visit / The varied distractions of Hickyacket Hall .... And so the MacFizzdts, they vanished forever, / At least each and every last one of the rest / Except for small Neville -- who said: 'Well, I never! / But then, I expect it was all for the best.'" Item #628

Price: $120.00