Leaves from a Mislaid Album
New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1972.
Price: $600.00
Softcover. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies. Seventeen loose illustration in folder and envelope. Small tears on the envelope, else fine. Inscribed by Gorey on the envelope.
Item #315289
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