Research Catalog

Title

Elephant house, or, The home of Edward Gorey / photographs and text by Kevin McDermott ; with illustrations by Edward Gorey ; foreword by John Updike.

Author

McDermott, Kevin, 1964-

Publication

San Francisco : Pomegranate, c2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

Gorey, Edward, 1925-2000

Description

1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (some col.); 22 x 30 cm.

Summary

Elephant House may be the most intimate portrait of Edward Gorey ever published. McDermott's reminiscences and descriptions of the house accompany his engaging photographs, and more than a dozen of Gorey's etchings and drawings of elephants-never before published-are paired with quotes from the artist. Through this portrait, Edward Gorey becomes even more the man we all wish we had had the chance to meet, an artist whose brilliant and hilarious art and words will continue to charm and delight us for generations to come.

Alternative Title

• Elephant house
• Home of Edward Gorey

Subjects

• Ouvrages illustrés
• Illustrated works
• Pictorial works
• illustrated books
• Yarmouth Port (Mass.) > Intellectual life
• Yarmouth Port (Mass.) > Buildings, structures, etc
• Authors, American > Homes and haunts > Massachusetts > Yarmouth Port
• Elephants in art
• Gorey, Edward, 1925-2000 > Homes and haunts > Massachusetts > Yarmouth Port > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

• illustrated books.
• Illustrated works
• Pictorial works
• Ouvrages illustrés.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The house -- The porch -- The entrance room -- The living room -- The kitchen -- The ball room -- the television room -- The studio -- The library -- The alcove -- The bathroom -- The bedroom -- The hidden room.

ISBN

0764924958 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003042875

OCLC

• 51722810
• SCSB-11081129

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library