Noel chez les volants des Alpes Dolomites
[New York]: Albondocani Press, (1985).
Price: $225.00
Softcover. First edition. Fine with original mailed envelope and card stiffener (envelope mailed with normal wear). Greeting Card with a Gorey drawing. One of 400 copies used as a holiday greeting by the artist and publisher. Inscribed by the publisher to noted bookman Ray Roberts. Roberts was an influential editor with Viking, Henry Holt, and then Little, Brown, and he worked closely with John Fowles, Martha Grimes, Thomas Pynchon, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
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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