The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust Wishes to Express: Thank You
- by Announcement, Rare Book Hub staff
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The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust is grateful to everyone who joined us at the July 31st Summer Cocktail Party Fundraiser at The Strand’s Rare Book Room and everyone who bid – in-person or online – at our silent auction. High points of the event were engaging remarks from writer, playwright, and theater director Carol Verburg, a long-time friend and collaborator of Edward Gorey’s in his 1990s Cape Cod “entertainments.” Her book on Gorey’s life behind the stage, The Theatrical Adventures of Edward Gorey, is being released this October. An exhibition of original art, puppets, and printed ephemera relating to Gorey’s stage work accompanied Carol’s talk.
Also on display were the lots featured in this year’s silent auction, including a drawing pen of Edward Gorey’s and other personal effects and various pieces of art and ephemera. The original pen and watercolor art for the book cover of THINGS : Stories of Terror and Shock by Six Science-Fiction Greats (Belmont, 1964) achieved the highest bid of the evening, at $6,250. A crowd favorite, won for $800, was a small rabbit Gorey designed, stuffed, and stitched and thirty years ago gave to Carol Verburg as a gift, who, in turn offered it to the Trust this year to support its mission.
The generosity of those who participated helped us exceed our goal of $45,000 with a total of $63,335 raised. These funds will help dogs and cats at rescue shelters in Massachusetts, elephants at a wildlife sanctuary in Tennessee, and bats, insects and other essential but often overlooked members of our delicate ecosystem worldwide. And, they will help our organization maintain the original art manuscripts and papers of Edward Gorey’s in our care benefit future scholars artists and others drawing inspiration from his life and work.
Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th May 2026
Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000
Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000
Forum, May 28:The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000
Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th May 2026
Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000
Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000
Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000
Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th May 2026
Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000
Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000
Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000
Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th May 2026
Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000
Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000
Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000
