{"product_id":"9780764963360","title":"Thoughtful Alphabets","description":"Astonishingly brief, captivating, decidedly engaging, for Goreyphiles: here. Its jolly, keen language meanders neatly. One ponders, quietly, rather strange tableaux. Uses verbs winsomely. Excited, you? Zowee! \u003cp\u003e What's this all about? In the mid-1990s Edward Gorey launched a numbered series of \"Thoughtful Alphabets\" featuring cryptic twenty-six-word stories wherein the first word begins with A, the last with Z. The first six Thoughtful Alphabets published (numbers 2, 3, 4, 10, 14, and 15) were hand-lettered posters with clip-art illustrations. Numbers XI and XVII, however, emerged as signed limited-edition books featuring happily for us Gorey's own drawings. First published by The Fantod Press but long out of print, these two gems are revived in Thoughtful Alphabets: The Just Dessert and The Deadly Blotter. In each, Gorey's inimitable drawings weave a tale of suspense and intrigue; the story proceeds as the alphabet progresses.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pomegranate","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46356460372140,"sku":"9780764963360","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/6626\/7820\/files\/9390203482460.jpg?v=1781638705","url":"https:\/\/giftshop.carlemuseum.org\/products\/9780764963360","provider":"The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}