Designed to appeal to Gorey lovers as well as those seeking an introduction to his work, "Ascending Peculiarity" includes reproductions of previously unpublished drawings and photos. 150 line drawings.
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Designed to appeal to Gorey lovers as well as those seeking an introduction to his work, "Ascending Peculiarity" includes reproductions of previously unpublished drawings and photos. 150 line drawings.
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May have some shelf-wear due to normal use. Your purchase funds free job training and education in the greater Seattle area. Thank you for supporting Goodwill's nonprofit mission!
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Crisp jacket, shelf wear to jacket no marks in book, pages bright white. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 292 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Cultish popularity has yielded to international fascination with this fecund author-artist's carefully crosshatched drawings, quaint enchiridions and fey fiction. Curator/art critic Wilkin expands on The World of Edward Gorey (1996), which she coauthored, with this illustrated collection of 21 interviews that reveal Gorey's interests, foibles and habits. Gorey (1925-2001) studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, was drafted in 1943 (training in Utah, he began his writing career with "unpresentable...closet dramas") and majored in French at Harvard. He initially published his books through his own Fantod Press. More than 100 titles followed The Unstrung Harp (1953), and his readership expanded in 1972 with the first of the Amphigorey anthologies. Interviews culled from magazines (Cats, Dance, Vanity Fair), newspapers, NPR and TV (Dick Cavett) reveal Gorey's cultural influences and inspirations (cats, crime narratives, Louis Feuillade, Buster Keaton, the New York City Ballet, Ivy Compton-Burnett) along with minutiae and insights into his erudite, eccentric humor. Best of all, readers glimpse Gorey's creative processes: the texts almost always preceded the drawings, for instance. On his work he was characteristically irreverent: "I get a certain enjoyment out of doing it; but after it's done, I have no feeling for it at all." Stephen Schiff's 1992 "Edward Gorey and the Tao of Nonsense" (from the New Yorker) provides an outstanding overview. This is an exhilarating excursion into an extraordinary imagination (with numerous artistic tips and resources). 8 photos, 150 drawings. (Oct. )Forecast: National publicity and advertising, especially around the holidays, and counter displays will grab fans and gift givers.
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0151005044. Hardcover with dust jacket. First edition, 1st printing. Light bumping to the bottom corners and the spine extremeties. Else clean. DJ looks like new except for atrace of bumping to the spine extremeties.; 23C; 9-1/4 x 7-1/4"; 292 pages.
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New in fine dust jacket. pp. 292. Paper over boards. Includes interviews selected and edited by Karen Wilkin. Miscellneous Quotes. Bibliography. Endnotesl acknowledgments. Permission Acknowledgments. Index. 292pp. Pristine book, crisp, clean, tight, never opened /read. DJ very slightly scuffed. Adult fiction. General audience.
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. As New. Black-and-white photographs and drawings. The dust jacket is protected by a Brodart mylar cover and is not price-clipped. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation. Fine in fine dust jacket.; B&W Illustrations and photographs; 8vo.; 292 pages.
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Fine Condition in Fine Condition jacket. 292 pp., B&W illustrations throughout. Stated first edition. Includes essays, interviews, acknowledgments, and index. Dustjacket is protected with a mylar cover.
