The Edward Gorey Summer Cocktail Soiree

The excitement is building as the time approaches for the Edward Gorey Charitable Trust Summer Cocktail Soiree. The site is open to purchase tickets to the event and also to view and place bids on the numerous lots of rare works and personal items being offered this year's silent auction. Visit the party site HERE (registration with fee is required to place bids on auction items).

In addition to placing bids for the online auction, you can also outright buy three items being offered (an additional buy it now item has already sold out)! Two limited edition prints featuring color artwork created by Edward Gorey have been specially created by The Trust, both of which are available for immediate purchase. The first print The Galoshes of Remorse was created for the March 22,1993 issue of The New Yorker magazine. This amusing vignette is captioned with a banner reading, “Frivolity, at the edge of a Moral Swamp, hears Hymn-Singing in the Distance and dons the Galoshes of Remorse.”

The second print, Ancient Survivals reproduces images from suite of ink and watercolor drawings made for The Worsted Monster : A Medieval Tale, an unfinished story by Edward Gorey (ca. 1954). The three drawings are titled Classical Spectre, Tattooed Eccentric, and Ancient Survivals. Both of these prints are limited to 50 numbered copies and can be purchased now.

The other item(s) available for immediate purchase are ten copies from the 1980 vintage edition of F.M.R.A. Published in an edition of 426 copies - 400 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies, each housed in a clamshell box, these are the publisher's remaining ten copies of this rare work which have been waiting patiently for 44 years to enhance the collections of today's eager Gorey enthusiasts. Each of the copies in the edition has been hand signed and numbered by Edward Gorey at the time of publication. When donating these final copies for inclusion in this auction, publisher Andrew Alpern has personally hand signed each copy, making these ten boxed sets with both signatures very rare indeed! 

Bid and buy now, these rarities are only available now!