First edition: New York: Dodd, Mead & Company [1977]. White boards with black pictorial stamping; pictorial dust wrapper.
Note: No statement of first edition, however subsequent printings were so designated on the copyright page.
First limited and signed edition: New York: Dodd, Mead & Company [1977]. White boards with black pictorial stamping; pictorial dust wrapper; issued in a black 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.