Mcgregor Dion Edward Gorey (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Edward Gorey (illustrator). 1st Edition. 8vo. Hardcover. Cloth. 1st edition. 213pp. Illustrated in b&w by Edward Gorey. Yellow covers have some surface soiling. Interior very good. Dust jacket rubbed & bit edge-worn with 1 short tear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 213 pp., with numerous whimsical drawings by Edward Gorey. Stated first printing. Minor shelf and handling wear. Head and foot of spine and corners and edges of boards gently bumped/rubbed. Mild soiling to boards; faintly visible erasure of previous bookseller's penciled notations on ffep. Moderate wear (including chips, creases, scuffs, and tears) to dust jacket (see photos); dust jacket is now enclosed in a (removable) protective mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dj. Illustrated by (dj and illus) Edward Gorey (illustrator). First Edition. [moderately shelfworn, with some soiling and spotting to the paper-covered boards, a couple of tiny nicks in the top edges; the jacket is a bit scuffed and lightly edgeworn, with a small sticker-removal scar on the front panel (fortunately in an area where it doesn't affect the Gorey illustration), tiny tears and minor associated creasing at top and bottom edges of the rear panel]. (pen & ink drawings) "No one wrote this book," declares the front-of-jacket text," -- these are the tape-recorded dreams of a man who talks in his sleep." McGregor (19221994) was a not-very-successful songwriter whose only real claim to fame (apart from co-writing one lovely song, "Where is the Wonder," that Barbra Streisand recorded in 1965) came from his sleep-talking. Per Wikipedia: "McGregor would essentially narrate his dreams at conversational volume. As a narrator of his (often terrifying) dreams, Dion adopted various personas but frequently established a fey, argumentative, insolent approach to the subject at hand be it a hot air balloon trip to the moon with a group of multi-ethnic children, a frantic journey around New York, or a tattooing job on a woman's tongue." An LP record of his tape-recorded dream sessions was released by Decca Records the same year this book was published.

Condition: NEAR FINE. First printing. An uncommon Edward Gorey illustrated book, one which transcribes the sleep-talking of an aspiring songwriter, who was couch-surfing in New York when his roommate recorded these dreams. More than 70 "unearthly, bizarre and often hilarious tapes" -from a balloon ride through a fleet of storks to a giant's piano and a classroom of nude artists - are included, illustrated throughout with pen and ink drawings, many full page, by Gorey ("etched in living dolour"). Both the recording of these dreams (where Gorey did the album cover) and this book were a flop when first published. Apparently 10,000 copies were printed, but only 6 or 7 thousand sold. However after the death of McGregor, more recordings were released and an experimental documentary film was made in 2017. Prefaced by a word from the dreamer and an introduction by Dr Valentine Wolf Zetlin. Bound in yellow paper-covered boards with a Gorey illustration on front, salmon cloth spine with black lettering and an illustration of a lizard. x, 213 pp. Near fine in very good dust jacket (small chips to the ends of the dj spine, some rubbing and light toning to dj, original price of $3.95 on dj flap) - despite the flaws, this is an attractive copy, clean and tight - in much better condition than usually found.

LP Record. Original pressing. DL 4463. Record Near Mint a few faint dust/sleeve rubs but clearly rarely handled. Sleeve has discrete 2"x2" square razor thin slice at the upper front corner where a store sticker was probably removed when it had shrink wrap, tiny red "Z" stamp to rear cover, otherwise in great shape; VG. In original Decca pictorial inner sleeve. Cover art by the one and only Edward Gorey. A classic Outsider album that's closer to surrealist short fiction than music; one man's dreams narrated by him as they happen. Issued around the same time as a book version. The audio version is superior, though, because the tenor of Dion's voice with its cattiness, nuances, and intonations adds a lot. McGregor's unconscious reveals itself (and our own unconsciousnessess too perhaps?) as deeply entertaining, funny, disturbing, and wildly creative.