The Betrayed Confidence: Seven Series of Dogear Wryde Postcards

E-046: Parnassus Imprints. Very Good. 1992. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Parnassus Imprints. 1992. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. Signed by Edward Gorey on the title page. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "SCENES DE BALLET: " six cards which caricature the ballet, its exotic titles and its performers. MENACED OBJECTS: 16 cards featuring every day objects with captions that turn the commonplace into the grotesquely sinister, e. G. "Devilled egg beneath a leak starting in the ceiling" ARMS FOR OBLIVION: 15 cards showing common objects within frames with a minimum of connotation e. G. "Papier mache doughnut (Diameter 4') made by D. Guest." or, "Mourning veil and cauliflower in the Uplift kitchen." INTERPRETIVE SERIES: 14 cards featuring a Gorey-creature wearing shoes and gloves with an upper case "I" prop, pantomiming the meanings of various words beginning with "I." "Insouciance" and "Idolent" are two examples. NEGLECTED MURDERESS SERIES: These 13 cards are subtle reminders that the female as well as the male can be deadly. "TRAGEDIES TOPIARES" is the tour-de-force of this collection. Its 13 cards with their captions in French are brilliant visual oxymorons. WHATEVER NEXT? Its 13 uncaptioned cards with a variety of spaces with objects, leave them open to interpretation. I'm convinced that the card with the frying pan setting on the edge of a table is a pictorial tribute to the Three Stooges. E-46; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .