The Loathsome Couple
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1977).
Price: $1,500.00
Hardcover. First edition. Oblong octavo. Slight waviness to the pages else near fine in very good dustwrapper with some faint dampstaining, in an about fine cardboard slipcase. Copy letter B of 26 lettered copies Signed by the author.
Item #352888
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