SIGNED FIRST EDITION EDWARD GOREY 1972 AMPHIGOREY HARDCOVER withDJ ANTHOLOGY

SIGNED FIRST EDITION EDWARD GOREY 1972 AMPHIGOREY HARDCOVER withDJ ANTHOLOGY
SIGNED FIRST EDITION EDWARD GOREY 1972 AMPHIGOREY HARDCOVER withDJ ANTHOLOGY
SIGNED FIRST EDITION EDWARD GOREY 1972 AMPHIGOREY HARDCOVER withDJ ANTHOLOGY
SIGNED FIRST EDITION EDWARD GOREY 1972 AMPHIGOREY HARDCOVER withDJ ANTHOLOGY
SIGNED FIRST EDITION EDWARD GOREY 1972 AMPHIGOREY HARDCOVER withDJ ANTHOLOGY
SIGNED FIRST EDITION EDWARD GOREY 1972 AMPHIGOREY HARDCOVER withDJ ANTHOLOGY
SIGNED FIRST EDITION EDWARD GOREY 1972 AMPHIGOREY HARDCOVER withDJ ANTHOLOGY
SIGNED FIRST EDITION EDWARD GOREY 1972 AMPHIGOREY HARDCOVER withDJ ANTHOLOGY
SIGNED FIRST EDITION EDWARD GOREY 1972 AMPHIGOREY HARDCOVER withDJ ANTHOLOGY
SIGNED FIRST EDITION EDWARD GOREY 1972 AMPHIGOREY HARDCOVER withDJ ANTHOLOGY
SIGNED FIRST EDITION EDWARD GOREY 1972 AMPHIGOREY HARDCOVER withDJ ANTHOLOGY
SIGNED FIRST EDITION EDWARD GOREY 1972 AMPHIGOREY HARDCOVER withDJ ANTHOLOGY

SIGNED FIRST EDITION EDWARD GOREY 1972 AMPHIGOREY HARDCOVER withDJ ANTHOLOGY

Illustrated with Black and White Plates. Signed by Edward Gorey on the title page.

DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ (chip present to the crown of the DJ spine). Previous owner's gift inscription present to the reverse of the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. Contains: The Unstrung Harp, The Listing Attic, The Doubtful Guest, The Object-Lesson, The Bug Book, The Fatal Lozenge, The Hapless Child, The Curious Sofa, The Willowdale Handcar, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Insect God, The West Wing, The Wuggly Ump, The Sinking Spell, and The Remembered Visit. John Gorey (February 22, 1925 April 15, 2000) was an American writer and artist noted for his illustrated books. His characteristic pen-and-ink drawings often depict vaguely unsettling narrative scenes in Victorian and Edwardian settings. SIGNED FIRST EDITION EDWARD GOREY 1972 AMPHIGOREY HARDCOVER w/DJ ANTHOLOGY. Up For Sale Today is. John Gorey was born in Chicago. His parents, Helen Dunham (née Garvey) and Edward Lee Gorey, divorced in 1936 when he was 11, then remarried in 1952 when he was 27.

One of his stepmothers was Corinna Mura (19091965), a cabaret singer who had a small role in the classic film Casablanca as the woman playing the guitar while singing "La Marseillaise" at Rick's Café Américain. His father was briefly a journalist. Gorey's maternal great-grandmother, Helen St.

John Garvey, was a popular nineteenth-century greeting card writer and artist, from whom he claimed to have inherited his talents. Gorey attended a variety of local grade schools and then the Francis W. He spent 1944 to 1946 in the Army at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, and then attended Harvard University, beginning in 1946 and graduating in the class of 1950, where he studied French and roomed with poet Frank O'Hara. In the early 1950s, Gorey, with a group of recent Harvard alumni including Alison Lurie (1947), John Ashbery (1949), Donald Hall (1951), and Frank O'Hara, amongst others, founded the Poets' Theatre in Cambridge, which was supported by Harvard faculty members John Ciardi and Thornton Wilder. He frequently stated that his formal art training was "negligible"; Gorey studied art for one semester at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1943.

From 1953 to 1960, he lived in New York City and worked for the Art Department of Doubleday Anchor, illustrating book covers and in some cases, adding illustrations to the text. He illustrated works as diverse as Dracula by Bram Stoker, The War of the Worlds by H. Wells, and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. In later years he produced cover illustrations and interior artwork for many children's books by John Bellairs, as well as books begun by Bellairs and continued by Brad Strickland after Bellairs' death. His first independent work, The Unstrung Harp, was published in 1953. He also published under pen names that were anagrams of his first and last names, such as Ogdred Weary, Dogear Wryde, Ms. Regera Dowdy, and dozens more. His books also feature the names Eduard Blutig ("Edward Gory"), a German language pun on his own name, and O. The New York Times credits bookstore owner Andreas Brown and his store, the Gotham Book Mart, with launching Gorey's career: it became the central clearing house for Mr. Gorey, presenting exhibitions of his work in the store's gallery and eventually turning him into an international celebrity.

Gorey's illustrated (and sometimes wordless) books, with their vaguely ominous air and ostensibly Victorian and Edwardian settings, have long had a cult following. Gorey became particularly well-known through his animated introduction to the PBS series Mystery!

In 1980, as well as his designs for the 1977 Broadway production of Dracula, for which he won a Tony Award for Best Costume Design. He also was nominated for Best Scenic Design. In the introduction of each episode of Mystery! Vincent Price would welcome viewers to "Gorey Mansion". Because of the settings and style of Gorey's work, many people have assumed he was British; in fact, he only left the U. Once, for a visit to the Scottish Hebrides. In later years, he lived year-round in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, where he wrote and directed numerous evening-length entertainments, often featuring his own papier-mâché puppets, an ensemble known as Le Theatricule Stoique. The first of these productions, Lost Shoelaces, premiered in Woods Hole, Massachusetts on August 13, 1987.

The last was The White Canoe: an Opera Seria for Hand Puppets, for which Gorey wrote the libretto, with a score by the composer Daniel James Wolf. Based on Thomas Moore's poem The Lake of the Dismal Swamp, the opera was staged after Gorey's death and directed by his friend, neighbor, and longtime collaborator Carol Verburg, with a puppet stage made by his friends and neighbors, the noted set designers Herbert Senn and Helen Pond. In the early 1970s, Gorey wrote an unproduced screenplay for a silent film, The Black Doll. Gorey was noted for his fondness for ballet (for many years, he religiously attended all performances of the New York City Ballet), fur coats, tennis shoes, and cats, of which he had many.

All figure prominently in his work. His knowledge of literature and films was unusually extensive, and in his interviews, he named Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, Francis Bacon, George Balanchine, Balthus, Louis Feuillade, Ronald Firbank, Lady Murasaki Shikibu, Robert Musil, Yasujiro Ozu, Anthony Trollope, and Johannes Vermeer as some of his favorite artists. Gorey was also an unashamed pop-culture junkie, avidly following soap operas and television comedies such as Petticoat Junction and Cheers, and he had particular affection for dark genre series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Batman: The Animated Series, and The X-Files; he once told an interviewer that he so enjoyed the Batman series that it was influencing the visual style of one of his upcoming books. Gorey treated television commercials as an art form in themselves, even taping his favorites for later study.

Gorey was especially fond of movies, and for a time he wrote regular reviews for the Soho Weekly under the pseudonym Wardore Edgy. After Gorey's death, one of his executors, Andreas Brown, turned up a large cache of unpublished work, some completed, some incomplete. Brown described the find as Ample material for many future books and for plays based on his work. Gorey is typically described as an illustrator. His books may be found in the humor and cartoon sections of major bookstores, but books such as The Object Lesson have earned serious critical respect as works of surrealist art. His experimentations creating books that were wordless, books that were literally matchbox-sized, pop-up books, books entirely populated by inanimate objects complicates matters still further.

As Gorey told Richard Dyer of The Boston Globe, Ideally, if anything were any good, it would be indescribable. Gorey classified his own work as literary nonsense, the genre made most famous by Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear.

In response to being called gothic, he stated, If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny nonsense. Sunny, funny nonsense for children oh, how boring, boring, boring. As Schubert said, there is no happy music.

And that's true, there really isn't. And there's probably no happy nonsense, either. OUR MISSION STATEMENT: Our goal is to provide the best books for the lowest prices.

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The item "SIGNED FIRST EDITION EDWARD GOREY 1972 AMPHIGOREY HARDCOVER withDJ ANTHOLOGY" is in sale since Thursday, June 15, 2017. This item is in the category "Books\Antiquarian & Collectible".

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