Autographs of Edward Gorey

Edward St. John Gorey (February 22, 1925 – April 15, 2000) was an American writer, Tony Award-winning costume designer, and artist, noted for his own illustrated books as well as cover art and illustration for books by other writers. His characteristic pen-and-ink drawings often depict vaguely unsettling narrative scenes in Victorian and Edwardian settings. More about Edward Gorey

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Current items with a signature of Edward Gorey

These are the most current items with a signature of Edward Gorey that were listed on eBay and on other online stores - click here for more items.

Picture Item Title Price Store
thumbnail1983 LTD ED. AMPHIGOREY ALSO - SIGNED by EDWARD GOREY - HC/DJ in SLIPCASE£390.91logo
thumbnailDAS GEHEIMNIS DER OTTOMANE - SIGNED by EDWARD GOREY - THE CURIOUS SOFA in German£226.70logo
thumbnailEdward Gorey / The Black Doll Signed 1st Edition 1973£321.70logo
thumbnailEdward Gorey / The Glorious Nosebleed Signed 1st Edition 1974£199.03logo
thumbnailEdward Gorey E. D. Ward, A Mercurial Bear signed first edition£79.95logo
thumbnailEdward Gorey THE BLACK DOLL signed first edition£119.93logo
thumbnailEdward Gorey. Prune People. 1st ed., ltd. & signed. 1983£425.25logo
thumbnailELEPHANT HOUSE, HOME OF EDWARD GOREY - SIGNED by JOHN UPDIKE & KEVIN McDERMOTT£370.34logo
thumbnailSIGNED - La Balade Troublante by Edward Gorey First Edition / 1st Printing Fine£98.54logo
thumbnailSigned The Doubtful Guest by Edward Gorey [Dodd, Mead, & Co, 1978]£298.51logo
Gorey was born in Chicago. His parents, Helen Dunham (née Garvey) and Edward Leo Gorey, divorced in 1936 when he was 11. His father remarried in 1952 when he was 27. His stepmother was Corinna Mura (1910–1965), a cabaret singer who had a small role in Casablanca as the woman playing the guitar while singing "La Marseillaise" at Rick's Café Américain. His father was briefly a journalist. Gorey's maternal great-grandmother, Helen St. John Garvey, was a nineteenth-century greeting card illustrator, from whom he claimed to have inherited his talents.

From 1934 to 1937, Gorey attended public school in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette, Illinois, where his classmates included Charlton Heston, Warren MacKenzie, and Joan Mitchell. Some of his earliest preserved work appears in the Stolp School yearbook for 1937. Afterward, he attended the Francis W. Parker School in Chicago. He spent 1944 to 1946 in the Army at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. He then attended Harvard University, beginning in 1946 and graduating in the class of 1950; he studied French and roomed with poet Frank O'Hara. Starting in 1951, Gorey illustrated poetry books by Merrill Moore for Twayne Publishers including Case Record from a Sonnetorium (many illustrations by Gorey, 1951), and More Clinical Sonnets (1953). Read even more about Edward Gorey at Wikipedia

Traded items with a signature of Edward Gorey

In total, we tracked 154 items since 01/09/2012. The chart below shows the trade volume over time.

The most expensive item with a signature of Edward Gorey (Bram STOKER, Edward Gorey / Dracula The Definitive Edition Limited Signed 1st ed) was sold in December 2023 for £783.65 while the cheapest item (Signed - The Abandoned Sock by Edward Gorey) found a new owner for £10.00 in August 2018. The month with the most items sold (10) was December 2023 with an average selling price of £107.10 for an autographed item of Edward Gorey. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in November 2021 with £325.49 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £25.53 was October 2018. In average, an autographed item from Edward Gorey is worth £98.66.

Most recently, these items with a signature of Edward Gorey were sold on eBay - click here for more items.

Picture Item Title Price Store
thumbnailEDWARD GOREY - SIGNED - THE DONG WITH THE LUMINOUS NOSE - 1969 - SCOTT MEAD USA£59.99logo
thumbnailEdward Gorey - The Sinking Spell pub 1975 Diogenes Verlag (Switzerland) SIGNED£32.13logo
thumbnailEdward Gorey SIGNED FIRST EDITION The Haunted Tea-Cosy 1st Printing 1/1 HCDJ£67.75logo
thumbnailEdward Gorey The Eclectic Abecedarium SIGNED HC£139.76logo
thumbnailFelicia Lamport Edward Gorey LIGHT METRES - Signed by Gorey & Lamport 332/350£92.48logo
thumbnailHEADLESS BUST EDWARD GOREY SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION+ORIGINAL BAHHUM BUG FINE£243.78logo
thumbnailRare - Edward Gorey 1st Edition Special The Headless Bust 604/750 SIGNED.£75.00logo
thumbnailSIGNED Edward Gorey - Q.R.V The Universal Solvent - 1990£96.51logo
thumbnailThe Haunted Tea-Cosy by Edward Gorey, Signed First Edition Hardcover, 1997£95.64logo
thumbnailThe Pointless Book by Garrod Weedy (Edward Gorey) 1st Ed, Signed. 1993£87.66logo