Still, they could never have anticipated how much trouble. But when they are ushered to the dilapidated doorstep of the miserable, thin, unshaven, shiny-eyed, money-grubbing Count Olaf, they know that they-and their family fortune-are in real trouble. The children thought it was bad when the well-meaning Poes bought them grotesque-colored clothing that itched. 'It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed,' laments the personable (occasionally pedantic) narrator, who tells the story as if his readers are gathered around an armchair on pillows. Poe tells them that their parents perished in a fire that destroyed their whole house. Their misfortunes begin one gray day on Briny Beach when Mr.

The Bad Beginning begins badly for the three Baudelaire children, and then gets worse. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box, of course not a bag. The Bad Beginning is the first of thirteen titles in the children's fiction series 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' (now also a Netflix series, of course), about newly-orphaned Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire. How many other details might vary, and how often among the many printings - well, we haven't made a study of that. He is playful in some of the variant details in the different printings of this otherwise identical edition (ISBN 0064407667, on the copyright page): the frontis in this example is different from the other one listed by us the Alternate ISBN (at the bottom of rear cover) is also different for the two examples and the signature page varies between them.

Confusing, to be sure - but Handler handled signing in a seeming plethora of ways. Dated stamped on same page, by publisher, 'Nov 25 2016'. Handler', and box there is checked as 'Official Representative' (for Lemony Snicket, though Handler, of course, IS in fact Snicket). Signature is on the second free endpaper, as 'D. Issued signed, and issued without jacket. Illustrations by Brett Halquist.12 mo, illustrated 3/4 semi-gloss illustrated boards with navy blue cloth spine which is imprinted in white, 172 pp.

Book the First of A Series of Unfortunate Adventures', by Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler). This is a stated First Edition, though this a later printing. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999.

The bad beginning rare edition