(Bookseller catalog): Foreign Editions of Books Written and Illustrated by Edward Gorey
New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1972.
Price: $150.00
Softcover. First edition. Quarto. Self-wrappers stapled in one corner. Three leaves printed rectos only. Light offsetting, two neat horizonal folds, presumably as mailed, else fine. Booksellers' catalogue . Scarce.
Item #459055
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