First edition: New York: Dodd, Mead & Company [1974 (actually 1975)]. White boards with reddish-orange and black pictorial stamping; pictorial dust wrapper. No statement of first edition.
Note: Later printings are stamped in red, not reddish-orange, on the boards as well as on the dust wrapper, and the words "Second Printing" appear on the copyright page.
First limited and signed edition: New York: Dodd, Mead & Company [1974 (actually 1975)]. White boards with reddish-orange and black pictorial stamping; pictorial dust wrapper; red slipcase. Limited to 250 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies signed by Edward Gorey. A first edition statement appears as part of the colophon page, which is a tipped-in leaf immediately before the title page.