[Rarebooks] Two by Edward Lear, Both Signed by Gorey

[Michelle Palmer]

They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
In a Sieve they went to sea!
And when the Sieve turned round and round,
And every one cried, `You'll all be drowned!'
They called aloud, `Our Sieve ain't big,
But we don't care a button! we don't care a fig!
In a Sieve we'll go to sea!'
       Far and few, far and few,
            Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
       Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
            And they went to sea in a Sieve.

~Edward Lear, 'The Jumblies'

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(Gorey, Edward)  Lear, Edward
 THE JUMBLIES

NY: Young Scott Books, 1968.

First Edition, First printing. Signed on the title page by Edward
Gorey, above his crossed out name. A bit of homage from one Nonsense
Poet to another. In this title, Gorey created a splendidly bizarre
visual accompaniment to Lear's poem, 'The Jumblies', from
THE BOOK OF NONSENSE (1847).

Oblong hardcover, 6-1/4" x 9-1/4", in reinforced light khaki-colored
cloth with black & white illustration to front cover, repeated on dust
wrapper; unpaginated (48 p.). Two wee closed edge tears on front flap,
directly opposite one another, from a Brodart sleeve that was too short
cutting into dust wrapper. Dust wrapper in new, appropriate length
archival sleeve.
Very slight wear to folds of spine panel and a thin, short, horizontal
crease at top edge of rear flap; otherwise remarkably clean and fresh,
particularly for this type of matte paper. Price intact ($2.95), sharp
corners, and clean, bright binding and leaves. Fine in Near Fine dust
wrapper.

$185.00

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Edward Lear was employed as a young man by the 13th Earl of Derby to
draw his menagerie. He became a favorite with the family and
subsequently composed THE BOOK OF NONSENSE for the amusement of young
Edward, the 15th Earl of Derby. While throughout his long life he
considered himself a landscape painter by profession, it was the
originality of his nonsense verse which brought him fame.
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  Slowly it wanders,--pauses,--creeeps,--
Anon it sparkles,--flashes and leaps;
And ever as onward it gleaming goes
A light on the Bong-tree stems it throws.
And those who watch at that midnight hour
>From Hall or Terrace, or lofty Tower,
Cry, as the wild light passes along,--
    'The Dong!--the Dong!
  'The wandering Dong through the forest goes!
    'The Dong! the Dong!
  'The Dong with a luminous Nose!'

~Edward Lear, 'The Dong with a Luminous Nose'

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(Gorey, Edward)  Lear, Edward
THE DONG WITH A LUMINOUS NOSE, Drawings by Edward Gorey.

NY: Young Scott Books, 1969.

First Edition, First printing. Signed on the title page by Edward
Gorey, above his crossed out name. This is the companion volume to
THE JUMBLIES, Gorey's uniquely illustrated version of a poem from
Lear's THE BOOK OF NONSENSE (1847).

Oblong hardcover, 6-1/4" x 9-1/4", in reinforced lavender cloth with
black & white illustration to front cover repeated on dust wrapper.
Dust wrapper is a matte finish paper of the same lavender background
with black & white design, in new, appropriate length archival sleeve.
Very slight wear to folds of spine panel, slightly more so to flap
folds, very mild wear to head of spine panel. Price intact ($2.95),
unpaginated (52 p.), sharp corners, and clean, bright binding and
leaves. Fine in Near Fine dust wrapper.

Both of these works later appeared in GOREY x 3, along with 'Donald
and the..' by Peter Neumeyer.

$165.00


Or $325.00 for the set.


A note on provenance: Both items were purchased from a member of the band
The Freeze, for whom Edward Gorey not only designed an album cover, but
wrote the song "Alien Heads" for the album One False Move (1999/Dr. Strange
Records). Gorey, a punk rocker. Who would have guessed, but he was a man of
many talents.


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