Noël Chez les Volants des Alpes Dolomites
(New York): NADJA / Albondocani Press, 1985.
Price: $200.00
Unbound. First edition. 7" x 4 1/2" card folded once. Fine in original envelope and card stiffener. One of 400 copies. Used as a holiday greeting by the artist and publisher, scarce.
Item #372515
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