Amphigorey: Fifteen Books
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1972).
Price: $1,000.00
Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. Very near fine in near fine dustwrapper with two short tears and slight toning at the spine. Signed by Gorey. A nice copy.
Item #350427
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