Edward Gorey. Catalogue #6
Atlanta: Bookfinders, 1982.
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Softcover. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Octavo. [16]pp. Postmarked as mailed, slight age-toning, very near fine. One of 400 numbered copies (of a total edition of 426) of a booksellers' catalog entirely devoted to Gorey.
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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