Betrayed Confidence, The : Seven Series of Dogear Wryde Postcards By Gorey, Edward, The Famed Illustrator Edward Gorey, Most Well-Known for His Production of the Credit Animation for TV's Mystery Program, Draws Terse, Idiosyncratic, and Morbidly Humorous
by Edward Gorey, SIGNED, with Frontispiece, Illustrated in B/W
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0940160528
- ISBN 13
- 9780940160521
- Seller
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About This Item
Parnassus Imprints, , 1992. PBO, Decorated B/W illustrated WRAPS, 1992. Pictorial Wraps. No Jacket, As Issued. First Edition. 12mo, 7 1/4 X 7 1/4 IN. Near fine in b/w wrap-around illustrated wraps. Minor wear (light soil on bottom page edge Corner, white spine Lettered in Black, Else FINE with tight, square spine and text block. SOFTCOVER, and morbidly humorous tales. His images are unforgettable, mysterious, and simultaneously burlesque and gloomy. _The Betrayed Confidence_ springs " from the pen of Dogear Wryde", the mysterious masked dog, who accompanies stark images with strange captions in this singular book. Gorey illustrated front and back covers, book is unpaginated but contains the Gorey illustrations for :scenes de ballet, menaced objects, alms for oblivion, interpretive series, neglected murderesses, tragedies topiares, whatever next?. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover.
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- Title
- Betrayed Confidence, The : Seven Series of Dogear Wryde Postcards By Gorey, Edward, The Famed Illustrator Edward Gorey, Most Well-Known for His Production of the Credit Animation for TV's Mystery Program, Draws Terse, Idiosyncratic, and Morbidly Humorous
- Author
- Edward Gorey, SIGNED, with Frontispiece, Illustrated in B/W
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0940160528
- ISBN 13
- 9780940160521
- Publisher
- Parnassus Imprints,
- Place of Publication
- Orleans, Massachusetts
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Edward Gorey, SIGNED Art Artist
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