Thoughtful Alphabets: The Just Dessert and the Deadly Blotter Hardcover - 2012
by Edward Gorey
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Astonishingly brief, captivating, decidedly engaging, for Goreyphiles: here. Its jolly, keen language meanders neatly. One ponders, quietly, rather strange tableaux. Uses verbs winsomely. Excited, you? Zowee!
What's this all about? In the mid-1990s Edward Gorey launched a numbered series of "Thoughtful Alphabets" featuring cryptic twenty-six-word stories wherein the first word begins with A, the last with Z. The first six Thoughtful Alphabets published (numbers 2, 3, 4, 10, 14, and 15) were hand-lettered posters with clip-art illustrations. Numbers XI and XVII, however, emerged as signed limited-edition books featuring happily for us Gorey's own drawings. First published by The Fantod Press but long out of print, these two gems are revived in Thoughtful Alphabets: The Just Dessert and The Deadly Blotter. In each, Gorey's inimitable drawings weave a tale of suspense and intrigue; the story proceeds as the alphabet progresses.
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- Title Thoughtful Alphabets: The Just Dessert and the Deadly Blotter
- Author Edward Gorey
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition Fi
- Pages 1
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Pomegranate Communications, Petaluma, CA
- Date 2012-09-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780764963360 / 0764963368
- Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 5.38 x 5.4 x 0.8 in (13.67 x 13.72 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Gifts & Games: Classic Books & Authors
- Library of Congress subjects American wit and humor, Pictorial, English language - Alphabet - Humor
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012935394
- Dewey Decimal Code 741.597
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