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back in print! Edward Gorey's CATEGORY was first published by Gotham Book Mart in, The English language edition has been out of print for decades, One of Gorey's most beloved books, CATEGORY collects a series of fifty cat vignettes, originally created by the artist as accompaniments to a limited edition of his book Amphigorey.
I love Edward Gorey. I love cats. So there it is. The lovely ILL people got this form me, I checked it out, read it, read it again and returned it to them, Satisfying.

Library copy One of the simplest and yet most engaging of Edward Gorey's wordless collections, The man really should have been a silent film writer/director, he certainly had the knack for it, A simply wonderful series of drawings, Kitties! Katzen und dunkler Humor :Dstelle solo perché mi sarebbe piaciuto sapere qualcosa in più su Gorey, il quale ha ispirato diversi illustratori, anche italiani, e dall'edizione Adelphi mi sarei aspettata almeno una prefazione o postfazione.
Born in Chicago, Gorey came from a colourful family his parents, Helen Dunham Garvey and Edward Lee Gorey, divorced inwhen he was, then remarried inwhen he was.
One of his step mothers was Corinna Mura, a cabaret singer who had a brief role in the classic film Casablanca.
His father was briefly a journalist, Goreys maternal great grandmother, Helen St, John Garvey, was a popularth century greeting card writer/artist, from whom he claimed to have inherited his talents.
He attended a variety of local grade schools and then the Francis W, Parker School. He spentin the Army at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, and then attended Harvard University fromto, where he studied French and roomed with future po Born in Chicago, Gorey came from a colourful family his parents, Helen Dunham Garvey and Edward Lee Gorey, divorced inwhen he was, then remarried inwhen he was.
One of his step mothers was Corinna Mura, a cabaret singer who had a brief role in the classic film Casablanca.
His father was briefly a journalist, Gorey's maternal great grandmother, Helen St, John Garvey, was a popularth century greeting card writer/artist, from whom he claimed to have

inherited his talents.
He attended a variety of local grade schools and then the Francis W, Parker School. He spentin the Army at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, and then attended Harvard University fromto, where he studied French and roomed with future poet Frank O'Hara.
Although he would frequently state that his formal art training was "negligible", Gorey studied art for one semester at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in, eventually becoming a professional illustrator.
Fromto, he lived in New York City and worked for the Art Department of Doubleday Anchor, illustrating book covers and in some cases adding illustrations to the text.
He has illustrated works as diverse as Dracula by Bram Stoker, The War of the Worlds by H, G. Wells, and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T, S. Eliot. In later years he illustrated many children's books by John Bellairs, as well as books in several series begun by Bellairs and continued by other authors after his death.
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