GOREY EDWARD THE BEASTLY BABY

Sale 2349 - Lot 180

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GOREY, EDWARD. THE BEASTLY BABY BY OGDRED WEARY. Illustrated by Gorey. Small 8vo, pictorial stapled wrappers. New York: Fantod Press, 1962

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one of 500 unnumbered copies of the rare first edition. signed by gorey on title. the first book bearing gorey's own fantod press imprint as he could find no publisher willing to accept it. Odgred Weary is an anagram for Edward Gorey which he used again in subsequent publications. Considered one of his more disturbing books and the first which focused on the vulnerability of children, Gorey was exploring the old New England legend of the taking of Indian babies by eagles, a tale especially well-known among Cape Codders. The story appears in Chapter 14 of Moby Dick (Nantucket), an influential book for Gorey: ". . . With loud lament the parents saw their child borne out of sight over the wide waters"--Bradford page 1; Toledano A9a.