First edition: New York: Dodd, Mead & Company [1976]. White boards with multi-colored pictorial stamping; pictorial dust wrapper. No statement of first edition. Note: Subsequent printings are so designated on the copyright page.
First limited and signed edition: New York: Dodd, Mead & Company [1976]. White boards with multi-colored pictorial stamping; pictorial dust wrapper; issued in a reddish-brown slipcase. Limited to 250 numbered and 26 lettered copies signed by Edward Gorey. A first edition statement appears as part of the colophon page, which is on a tipped-in leaf immediately before the title page.
First English edition: London and Tonbridge: Ernest Benn [1979]. White boards with multi-colored pictorial stamping; pictorial dust wrapper. "First published in Great Britain 1979 by Ernest Benn Limited" on the copyright page.