The Jumblies
(New York): Young Scott Books, (1968).
Price: $650.00
Unbound. Uncorrected proof consisting of three unbound signatures laid into the finished jacket. Oblong octavo. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with pencil initials (in an unknown hand) on the front panel. Gorey's interpretation of some of Lear's nonsense poems. Presumably very scarce in this format.
Item #282248
Edward Gorey
birth name: Edward St. John Gorey
born: 2/22/1925
died: 4/15/2000
Biography
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