Bookmark Musings

In How to Travel With a Salmon & Other Essays, a "Borders" bookmark in Gorey handwriting reads (middle) "A Novel written in a single sentence", (long side, right) "This time, however, it was different. p.100 Q for K". (long side, bottom, left) "Twilight in Dehli F/L[flyleaf?]". "A Novel written in a single sentence This time, however, it was different. p.100 Q for K Twilight in Dehli F/L[flyleaf?]". On verso Gorey writing reads (middle) "Wassenear", (long side, right) "Vesania, Adynamia". Edward Gorey's reading notes are "12.xii.96" and "7.v.98."
"Strand Book Store" bookmark with manuscript by Edward Gorey as follows."20 The Hysterical (illegible word?)" "Misplaced Rhetoric". "Mata Hari 41". Verso manuscript reads "Anxiety Surprise Treachery 257-'...yonder curling flame is…'" ,"Haiku 20 63 69 76 82 109 121 124 131 133 142 148 150 155 171", "The Evil Garden 4/7/64", "The Monument Swamp 5/7/64", "Eulogia {Wagh Hist Anan Hugh", "The Doom and Gloom Series. Tottering Prudence Painted Willie [scratched out Tottering Prudence]" ,"The Frayed Garden" , "World of Des p.154"
"paperback booksmith" bookmark with Edward Gorey manuscript reading as follows. (right hand side) "The____ Cruet Deuted whatever Cruet 28.vii.84", (long side, top) "Indoors/Outdoors book 4.i.85 indoors on left, outdoors on right what sort of plot?", (long side, bottom) "They sped through the moonless night They fought their way through a blizzard etc. They had hopes of a photograph [insert alternating with things like] album left behind but it turned out to be of another family entirely", to the left of this "The Sinister (Tea] Cosy" Verso reads, "sinister logo (a la [horrible things?) happening everywhere." [line down to words] "begin/end signs. Albright."
In The Novels of Charles Williams Gorey's reading notes "1.ix.99-12.ix.99" and an orange slip of paper listing Charles Williams' novels in chronological order, guessing in what order they were written in the first list and in second list ordering them by title initials and numbering them one through seven. Also with "??", "don't have" by one book indicating he was doing a inventory of what he owned perhaps.
Damaged folded scrap of paper in The Hiding Place by Robert Shaw with Edward Gorey inscription that reads, "The Shore, Beach and" [Photographer word partly missing] "Three-sided Stones/Pebbles", "white flower with the odor of curry-", "summer hotel heroine fades away"
Borders Bookmark with Edward Gorey handwriting that reads, "Shinjū - lover's suicide" "What is left for us to do but a picturesque shinjū?" "Nothing makes one quite so weary As a dose of in takkiri:" [unclear words (SU TO)]. These couplets were written in 1999 for his friend since high school - his lifelong best friend, Consuelo ("Connie") Joerns - who shared with him a love of Japanese art and literature. He would send her postcards over the course of that year each with a different verse containing a Japanese word or phrase.
"paperback booksmith" bookmark Edward Gorey inscription that reads, (upside down at bottom) "Burmese Silver 20.iv.97", "E name for Elephant or not? ogdred", "crates clipping rest of bric a brac trunks portus(??)" "shoe forms", "The Button Book 17.ii.56 button & circumstances left; scene right There's no talking". Verso reads inside the letter G "Burmese Silver [unclear]".
Orleans Booksmith Bookmark with Edward Gorey handwriting on it.Edward Gorey writing on bookmark reads, "Evening of dance, poetry, etc. For 75______Olla podrida
Slip of paper inside Board & Table Games2 From many Civilizations by R.C. Bell inscribed by Gorey, "The Lost Game 31.vii.69" This annotation form refers to the date Gorey read something.
Librarie de France bookmark Bookmark has Edward Gorey handwriting on it, "Pascalot p. 162" and on verso " La Sauvagine Joseph d'Arbaud"
Edward Gorey manuscript annotates "booksmith" bookmark in The Wheel. Japanese History with what are perhaps notes/ideas for books? Manuscript reads "Missing Chapters 10.11.90 T Shirts: UM The Haunted [Rhino?] (Cleveland Torso Murders) insects, animals, skunks, etc turbans(??) Question Admonition Rejoice, Repent O rapture,woe, Owoe betide The__of __!"
Edward Gorey handwritten list on Shambala Publications advertising card slipped into the book The Wheel Japanese History. List reads, "huang-Ghon(crossed out)-Tzu Herbert Giles James Legge Arthur Waley Burton Walson Liu Yutang Thomas Merton Angus C. Graham Victor H. Mair Sam Hamill/J.P. Seaton Martin Baber I and Tao trans. Jonathan Herman SUP of NY Albany"
A Common Reader Bookmark. Gorey handwriting on front reads "IKI RYO Japanese Contunier(sp?) Treehorn's Wish." (Then upside down writing reads ) "Ballute Sempiternal". Verso writing (long side right) "tunp??? [?]", (long side left) "You can be blameless, though you're shameless, If in obscurity you operate late And (live on) Q.R.V." [Q.R.V. is a common Gorey reference that 'means nothing but cures everything"], "King & Joker 26.vi.96".
Edward Gorey Fuyez tout est decouvert!"[transl."Flee all is discovered!"] Reading notes inside book are "8.iv.81-9.iv.81".
"Gotham Book Mart" bookmark slipped into la tentation de saint Antoine. Verso side Edward Gorey handwriting reads (long side right) "It was a perfect night for a murder. 17.xii.85 Leniency to the Lapser.", (long side left) "Or, we know not what 14.xii.83 Drabness &Sprawl Obscure Circumstances". On the inside bookcover Gorey reading notes are "8.xi.83","17.xii.83", "6.ii.93-9.ii.93".
In Harry Dickson Cinq Aventures Intêgrales by Jean Ray, a "Memo from the desk of EDWARD GOREY" inserted. Gorey handwriting reads "Jean Ray Pseudonyms-Weird Tales: Nov. 34, Dec.34 April 34, Oct.35. John Flanders, Sailor, W.J.J. Campbell, Hugh Panke?y, R.M Temple. Jean-Pierre Mockey: The Great Fear from The City of the Unspeakable Fear". J
A "paperback booksmith" Hyannis, Mass bookmark in The Myth of Shangri-La. Tibet, Travel Writing and the Western Creation of Sacred Landscape. Gorey handwriting reads, (short side, top) "tidewaiter", (short side, bottom) "rose-water catastrophe", "Trollope Editors--p. 227", "unnravelled (not) mystery 223". On verso, (short side, top) "Boccherini guitar Quartet D Major arranged for g and harpsichord", (long side middle, left) "The Pop-Up Book Paul Jackson Owl Book Henry Holt", (long side, left, bottom) "A chapter of [Nachakoo ??]", (long side, right, bottom) "A Bad Quarter of an Hour. puppet play I.x.94" Edward Gorey's reading notes inside back cover of Myth of Shangri-La read "4.2.94-" and "30.ix.94".

Damaged folded scrap of paper in The Hiding Place by Robert Shaw with Edward Gorey inscription that reads, "The Shore, Beach and" [Photographer word partly missing] "Three-sided Stones/Pebbles", "white flower with the odor of curry-", "summer hotel heroine fades away"

Orleans Booksmith Bookmark with Edward Gorey handwriting on it.Edward Gorey writing on bookmark reads, "Evening of dance, poetry, etc. For 75______Olla podrida

Slip of paper inside Board & Table Games2 From many Civilizations by R.C. Bell inscribed by Gorey, "The Lost Game 31.vii.69" This annotation form refers to the date Gorey read something.

Librarie de France bookmark Bookmark has Edward Gorey handwriting on it, "Pascalot p. 162" and on verso " La Sauvagine Joseph d'Arbaud"

Edward Gorey Fuyez tout est decouvert!"[transl."Flee all is discovered!"] Reading notes inside book are "8.iv.81-9.iv.81".