[Box title]: 12 Correspondence Notes by Edward Gorey for New York City Ballet

New York: New York City Ballet, [circa 1975].

Price: $450.00

Unbound. Pack of twelve cards illustrated by Edward Gorey, three each of four different ballet-themed designs accompanied by twelve unprinted envelopes, housed in printed cardboard box with clear plastic lid. Box a little rubbed and near fine, cards are fine.

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Item #302205 [Box title]: 12 Correspondence Notes by Edward Gorey for New York City Ballet. Edward GOREY.
[Box title]: 12 Correspondence Notes by Edward Gorey for New York City Ballet
[Box title]: 12 Correspondence Notes by Edward Gorey for New York City Ballet
[Box title]: 12 Correspondence Notes by Edward Gorey for New York City Ballet
[Box title]: 12 Correspondence Notes by Edward Gorey for New York City Ballet

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

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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

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