Three Books from the Fantod Press. Fantod IV. The Disrespectful Summons; The Abandoned Sock; The Lost Lions
New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1973.
Price: $1,000.00
Softcover. First edition. Three volumes in stapled wrappers, in publisher's printed envelope as issued. Books are as new; the envelope is fine.
Item #99497
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