May 07, 2014 - Sale 2349

Sale 2349 - Lot 190

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
GOREY, EDWARD. THE DEADLY BLOTTER; THOUGHTFUL ALPHABET XVII. Illustrated by Gorey. Small 8vo, pictorial wrappers. marked g of only 26 lettered copies signed by gorey from a total edition of 776. [New York: Fantod Press, 1997]
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Bradford page 30 (the final entry): "The text consists of twenty-six words arranged alphabetically . . . because of Gorey's random numbering scheme, The Deadly Blotter is not necessarily the seventeenth Thoughtful Alphabet written or published."