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Available
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Publication
Macmillan Company (1977), Edition: 1st, 243 pages
Description
The Princess Poliachinsky is 90 years old, admits to 75, and is imperious, outspoken and strangley preoccupied with death. Her greatest pleasure in life is attending the funerals of friends and contemporaries whom she has outlived, and she is not above helping to expedite their encounters with the grim reaper.
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243 p.; 8.1 inches
ISBN
0026146703 / 9780026146708
Local notes
Roving around European hot spots and chic Manhattan watering holes, this tells the story of a woman in love with death, who placates it by offering up others in place of herself to appease it.
Gah - missing dustjacket by Gorey - the whole reason for getting it! Made a facsimile one anyway.
Gah - missing dustjacket by Gorey - the whole reason for getting it! Made a facsimile one anyway.