First Person: A Journal of Travel, Memoirs & Humor – First Issue / Fall 1960
Salem, Massachusetts: Bradford & Bigelow, 1960.
Price: $35.00
Softcover. First edition. Octavo. Illustrated with black and white plates by Edward Gorey. Wrappers. Foxing on interior panels and adjacent pages, light foxing on plates and wrappers, ink notations on 4 pages, good only. First issue of this literary magazine. Includes Gorey's "Leaves From a Mislaid Album" and work by Ford Madox Ford, Thornton Wilder, Allan Seager, and others.
Item #539055
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