First edition: New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1997 [issued 1998]. White boards with rose pink, green tea, and brown with black pictorial stamping; pictorial dust wrapper. "First Edition" on copyright page. First appeared in the December 21, 1997 issue of The New York Times Magazine.
First limited and signed edition: New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1997 [issued 1998]. White boards with rose pink, green tea, and brown with black pictorial stamping; pictorial dust wrapper. Issued in a navy blue slipcase. Limited to 500 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.