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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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.In total, we tracked 149 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 November 2023 with an average selling price of £91.92 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 £99.10.
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