Jun 13, 2017 - Sale 2451

Sale 2451 - Lot 240

Unsold
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
GOREY, EDWARD / EPHEMERA. Signed broadside advertisement for the Eglevesky Ballet production of Swan Lake. "The Eglevsky Ballet, Andre Eglevsky, Artistic Director, presents Swan Lake, Act Two, and Other Ballets / sets and costumes by Edward Gorey, designer of Dracula / Nantucket High School Auditorium, August 21, 22, & 23 at 8:30 p.m." 280x432 mm; 11x17 inches. Printed in black on white stiff paper, some toning and light surface rubbing. scarce early theater poster, signed by gorey over his printed signature which he has crossed out. Np, [1975]

Additional Details

with--three other small poster advertisements for book/theater productions, all signed. Illustrated by Gorey. Various sizes, condition varies. Gorey Hallelujah! Berkley Windhover Paperbacks advertisement for the Amphigorey books and announcing Gorey Stories is "now a play." Circa 1978 Gorey Stories. Poster for the Booth Theatre production directed by Tony Tanner. 558x356 mm; 22x14 inches on stiff paper. [1978] Advertisement for the NYU Undergraduate Drama production of Tinned Lettuce: or, The New Musical, Written and Designed by Gorey, directed by David Aldrich. New York, 1975. Unevenly toned and creased, with a tear at left margin.