Jan 23, 2014 - Sale 2337

Sale 2337 - Lot 96

Price Realized: $ 6,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
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, New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1998. 222x330 mm; 8 1/2x13 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.

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A striking and surreal jacket design by Gorey for the Bellairs/Strickland series he illustrated.