The Fantod Pack

[No place, probably Southern California]: The Owl Press, [circa 1969].

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Unbound. The true first edition, unauthorized, and pirated from a 1966 issue of *Esquire* magazine. Twenty tarot-type cards, fluorescent green cardstock printed in purple, wrapped in a printed yellow sheet, with a printed blue sheet wrapped around. Cards are fine, yellow sheet is fine, blue sheet has an old handwritten price struck through, and two small tape shadows, else fine. Rare. Gorey's take on the trumps major of tarot cards. The authorized edition of the pack wasn't issued until 1995. *Toledano* A113c, speculating that these were produced in 1969. *OCLC* locates a single set.

Item #276765

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Item #276765 The Fantod Pack. Edward GOREY.
The Fantod Pack

Edward Gorey
birth name: Edward St. John Gorey
born: 2/22/1925
died: 4/15/2000

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Writer, illustrator, and designer, noted for his arch humor and gothic sensibility. Gorey drew a pen-and-ink world of beady-eyed, blank-faced individuals whose dignified Edwardian demeanor is undercut by silly and often macabre events. His nonsense rhymes recalled those of Edward Lear, and his mock-Victorian prose delighted readers with its ludicrous fustiness. Gorey's work evoked the cozy sensibilities of childhood reading while subverting that feeling with its often grisly humor. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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