The Object-Lesson

Oblong 8vo. Bound in light green paper covered boards lettered in black,with a small design of a hare holding a letter, spine lettering in black. No dust wrapper. Not paginated 44 pages. Each page illustrated in black and white with text in lower margin. Contemporary inscription 'Michael Zimmer Christmas 1958' written in ink. Possibly the author? Lacks dust wrapper, there are minor chips in the paper covering the boards, corners are rubbed and lower boards; the boards are dusty. Inside is clean. However, still a nice copy. Clean inside and out and binding sturdy.A work of surrealist art and literature, it is typical of Gorey's avant-garde style of storytelling, with Victorian and Edwardian-esque line drawings and settings, each described with a sentence fragment which adds to a larger continuous narrative. The pictures and text combine to tell a strange and obscure story. Although internally consistent, coherent, and structured, the story has a disjointed and disorienting quality, with melancholic and morbidly humorous effects. Size 15 x22 cm [6 x 8.75 inches].…