A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS [with] LEMONY SNICKET: THE UNAUTHORIZE BIOGRAPHY [with] HORSERADISH: BITTER TRUTHS YOU CAN'T AVOID [with] THE BEATRICE LETTERS [Sixteen Volumes with Ephemera] [All Signed]

Snicket, Lemony [Handler, Daniel]

ISBN 10: 0064407667 / ISBN 13: 9780064407663

Published by HarperCollins 1999-2007, New York, 1999

About this Item

Octavos, sixteen volumes. In Very Good plus to Near Fine condition. Thirteen volumes with monochrome paper spines and white lettering; one volume with tan and brown spine an black lettering; one volume with green pictorial spine and black lettering; and one volume with brown spine and yellow lettering. Light to light plus bumping to heads and tails of text blocks of each volume. CONTENTS: BOOK THE FIRST: A BAD BEGINNING (162 pages), New York: HarperCollins, 1999. 18th printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page. -- BOOK THE SECOND: THE REPTILE ROOM (190 pages), New York: HarperCollins, 1999. First printing. Protected in mylar wrap. -- BOOK THE THIRD: THE WIDE WINDOW (214 pages), New York: HarperCollins, 2000. First printing. Protected in mylar wrap. -- BOOK THE FOURTH: THE MISERABLE MILL (194 pages), New York: HarperCollins, 2000. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page. -- BOOK THE FIFTH: THE AUSTERE ACADEMY (221 pages), New York: HarperCollins, 2000. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page. -- BOOK THE SIXTH: THE ERSATZ ELEVATOR (259 pages), New York: HarperCollins, 2001. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page. -- BOOK THE SEVENTH: THE VILE VILLAGE (256 pages), New York: HarperCollins, 2001. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page. -- BOOK THE EIGHTH: THE HOSTILE HOSPITAL (255 pages), New York: HarperCollins, 2001. First printing. -- BOOK THE NINTH: THE CARNIVOROUS CARNIVAL (286 pages), New York: HarperCollins, 2002. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page. -- BOOK THE TENTH: THE SLIPPERY SLOPE (337 pages), New York: HarperCollins, 2003. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page. -- BOOK THE ELEVENTH: THE GRIM GROTTO (323 pages). New York: HarperCollins, 2004. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page. -- BOOK THE TWELFTH: THE PENULTIMATE PERIL (353 pages). New York: HarperCollins, 2005. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page; additionally inscribed by illustrator on the same page. -- BOOK THE THIRTEENTH: THE END (324, [16], 13 pages), New York: HarperCollins, 2006. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on dedication page; additionally inscribed by illustrator on the same page. -- THE BEATRICE LETTERS (unpaginated), New York: HarperCollins, 2006. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed (with minor smudging) by the author on dedication page. Soft cover, housed in publisher's hardcover folder, with accompanying poster. -- LEMONY SNICKET: THE UNAUTHORIZED AUTOBIOGRAPHY (212 pages), New York: HarperCollins, 2002. First printing. Stamped, dated, and inscribed by the author on half title; with orange sticker to dust jacket. -- HORSERADISH: BITTER TRUTHS YOU CAN'T AVOID (168 pages), New York: HarperCollins, 2007. First printing. Signed and dated by the author on title page. With dust jacket protected ny mylar covering; mylar covering with small white numbered sticker to lower right front corner. --With various ephemera, including two strips of temporary tattoos (one with moderate creasing, wear, and age toning), a sheet of stickers, an iron-on transfer, a notepad, a pack of "Misfortune Telling Cards," and a poster for an event with Lemony Snicket (folded, and with moderate creasing and wear). JW Consignment. Shelved in Case 5. 1385160. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS [with] LEMONY SNICKET: THE UNAUTHORIZE BIOGRAPHY [with] HORSERADISH: BITTER TRUTHS YOU CAN'T AVOID [with] THE BEATRICE LETTERS [Sixteen Volumes with Ephemera] [All Signed]
• Publisher: HarperCollins 1999-2007, New York
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0064407667
• ISBN 13: 9780064407663
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Helquist, Brett
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Dupont Circle

About this title

Synopsis

**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES**

In the tradition of great storytellers, from Dickens to Dahl, comes an exquisitely dark comedy that is both literary and irreverent, hilarious and deftly crafted. Miserably scrawled by Lemony Snicket and respectfully illustrated by Brett Helquist, never before has a series of three likeable and unfortunate children been quite so enchanting, or quite so uproariously unhappy. 

Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky.

In what is agreed upon by all to be a very bad beginning to the rest of their lives, these three youngsters not only learn that their parents have died and that they've become orphans overnight, but also that a one Count Olaf will be their caretaker. Repulsive, demanding, and downright sinister, Count Olaf proves to be as greedy as his eyes are beady (and, readers, they are beady).

With their family fortune on the line, the siblings must endure a few terrible things before—we can only hope—making it out alive: itchy clothing, boiled potatoes, shamefully incompetent adults, and a wedding that no one wants to attend, including the bride.

Read now…or forever hold your peace. 

About the Authors

Lemony Snicket had an unusual education, which may or may not explain his ability to evade capture. He is the author of the thirteen volumes in A Series of Unfortunate Events, several picture books, including The Dark, and the books collectively titled All the Wrong Questions.

Brett Helquist's celebrated art has graced books from the charming Bedtime for Bear, which he also wrote, to the New York Times–bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket to the glorious picture book adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.