Edward Gorey: His Book Cover Art & Design

The master creator of finely crosshatched illustrations and sinisterly amusing tales, Edward Gorey got his start in publishing by designing book covers for such New York houses as Doubleday, Grosset & Dunlap, Vintage Books, and Random House. Today, his prodigious output of hundreds of dust jackets and paperback covers evidences his distinctive flair for design and his extraordinary ability to portray the essence of the books that came his way.

132 pages. Essay by Steven Heller.