The Glorious Nosebleed: Fifth Alphabet
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, (1974).
Price: $650.00
Hardcover. First edition. Fine in dustwrapper with a faint stain at the base of the spine but which is otherwise near fine in slightly dampstained, near fine publisher's slipcase. Copy number 32 of 250 numbered copies Signed by Gorey.
Item #352920
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