95
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EDWARD GOREY.
“Haunted America.”
Ink, pencil and watercolor on paper, preliminary dust jacket design for the book of the
same name by Marvin Kaye, New York: Guild America, New York, 1990. 216x330 mm;
8
1
/
2
x13 inches, image. Central crease along left spine panel, mounted to styrofoam board
with archival tape in six places along edge and matted. In the published version the left
panel here became the book cover with lettering.
[4,000/6,000]
96
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EDWARD GOREY.
The Specter From the Magician’s Museum.
Ink and watercolor on paper dust jacket design for John Bellairs’s and Lewis Barnavelt in
The Specter from the Magician’s Museum by Brad Strickland, NewYork: Dial Books for
Young Readers, 1998. 222x330 mm; 8
1
/
2
x13 inches, image. Unsigned. Corner-tipped to
board, matted. Gorey’s original pen and India ink layout of book cover and spine tipped to
board verso, clean 4-inch tear extending from upper left margin into lettering.
[6,000/9,000]
A striking and surreal jacket design by Gorey for the Bellairs/Strickland series he illustrated.
