FRESHWATER: A COMEDY Signed by Gorey.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1985.
1st Edition. First Harcourt Brace softcover edition of Virginia Woolf’s only play, FRESHWATER: A COMEDY, originally written in 1923 and revised in 1935. Edited and introduced by Lucio P. Ruotolo, this edition features illustrations throughout by Edward Gorey.
Signed by Gorey in pen on the title page.
Condition: Light shelf wear, otherwise clean and tight.
Gorey’s distinctive pen-and-ink drawings add a mischievous, ironic charm that complements Woolf’s satirical portrait of Victorian literary society. Gorey, who was a devoted reader of Woolf and the Bloomsbury circle, illustrated this edition of FRESHWATER more than forty years after her death.
Item #34201 Price: US$500.00