Jun 05, 2018 - Sale 2480

Sale 2480 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 12,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
EDWARD GOREY.
"ABA 75." Cover illustration for the May 19, 1975 edition of Publisher's Weekly, which featured an article on the 1975 American Booksellers Association Convention. Watercolor and ink on stiff paper. 293x213 mm; 11 3/4x8 1/4 inches, on 13 1/4x9 1/4-inch sheet. Initialed "E. G." in ink, lower right corner. Gorey's 1x1 3/4-inch paste-over to plaid-suited man's trouser leg, covering a rejected first ink draft. Penned printer's inked note in lower right margin. Tipped to window matte along top edge. Framed.