Dogear Wryde Postcards: Whatever Next?

(New York): [no publisher], 1990.

Price: $400.00

Unbound. First edition. Twelve 6" x 4" postcards in a printed envelope with a separate limitation card. Postcards are fine in a near fine envelope, lightly worn at the edges. Printed in an edition of 276 signed sets, this is designated "O/S," Signed by Gorey, and additionally Inscribed: "For Norma." *Toledano* A98a.

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Item #500995 Dogear Wryde Postcards: Whatever Next? Edward as Dogear Wryde GOREY.
Dogear Wryde Postcards: Whatever Next?
Dogear Wryde Postcards: Whatever Next?
Dogear Wryde Postcards: Whatever Next?
Dogear Wryde Postcards: Whatever Next?
Dogear Wryde Postcards: Whatever Next?
Dogear Wryde Postcards: Whatever Next?

Edward Gorey
birth name: Edward St. John Gorey
born: 2/22/1925
died: 4/15/2000

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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

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