Edward Gorey / THE PRUNE PEOPLE II Signed 1st Edition 1985

With Original Pictorial Order Card. Signed limited first edition, one of only 300 numbered copies, sequel to the riveting and suspenseful THE PRUNE PEOPLE told only through pictures.

While Gorey's work generally remains squarely in the realm of eerie, his prune people dive deep into creepy - especially with images like the one depicting a group of prune people carrying torches in an ominous developing mob. The unsettling images are balanced in part by whimsical, if somewhat baffling, interludes: two prune men dancing, in tuxedos; a group of rugby?

Players gathered as if for a team photo; spectators of sperm-shaped fireworks. Read more: Toledano, Goreyography, A91b. New York: Albondocani Press, 1985.

Original handsewn brown pictorial wrappers. Illustrated by Gorey with full-page black-and-white images, printed rectos only. Publisher's order card laid in reproducing the cover of the book.

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