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The Haunted Looking Glass: Ghost Stories Chosen and Illustrated by Edward Gorey
by Gorey, Edward
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG-/No Jacket
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York: Looking Glass Library/Random House, Inc., 1959. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. VG-/No Jacket. Gorey, Edward. The true FIRST EDITION, First Printing (Toledano, B9-a), from 1959 of this collection of 12 sinister & scary stories by authors like Wilkie Collins, Algernon Blackwood, Charles Dickens, E. Nesbit, R. L. Stevenson, Bram Stoker, & more. Edward Gorey personally selected these as some of his favorites, & prefaced each story with a full-page, pen-and-ink illustration, as well as drawing the haunting cover art, which graces the front, back, & spine. In 311 pages, with About the Authors & listing of other Looking Glass titles in rear. With rose/purple/white/black paper-covered boards, this hardcover 8vo is in VG- condition: mild-moderate edgewear, including rubbing to extremities & bumped corners & spine tips. Binding is secure & straight, pages creamy white & completely unmarked. NO DJ. (We are also offering a copy of the later reprint edition with a DJ, with a slightly different title, size & cover art; please see our listing #022325). Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022326
- Title
- The Haunted Looking Glass: Ghost Stories Chosen and Illustrated by Edward Gorey
- Author
- Gorey, Edward
- Illustrator
- Gorey, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG-
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- Looking Glass Library/Random House, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- HAUNT POLTERGEIST FICTION FEAR HORROR GOREY GHOST SPIRITS MACABRE ILLUSTRATIONS ILLUSTRATORS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature/Literary Criticism/Poetry/Short Stories; Illustrated Books/Illustrators / Edward Gorey;
Terms of Sale
Gargoyle Books
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About the Seller
Gargoyle Books
Biblio member since 2006
La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
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