The Haunted Looking Glass. Ghost Stories Chosen and Illustrated by Edward Gorey by GOREY, Edward - 1959

New York Review of Books, 2001. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 272 pages. 7.75x5.00x0.75 inches.

Looking Glass Library, January 1958. Hardcover. Used. Please email sellers for images of this item at calamitybooks@icloud.com.

Looking Glass Library, 1959. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1959. No edition remarks. 311 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial paper covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout by author. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and rubbing to corners and crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has heavy wear with large tears, chipping and creasing. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine.

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… Read More

HB NODJ, Hardcover. Condition: Fine-. NO Dust Jacket . Gorey (illustrator). 1959, 1st edition, EARLY ISSUE, FINE-, NO JACKET . 314 Pp. + 2 Pp Catalog Of 28 Titles At End. THICK COLOR Illustrated Boards MATCH DJ., Original Format, 28 Titles Listed At Rear THRU TAPESTRY ROOM, Dust Jacket Priced $1.95. Book Clean, Hinges Solid, Covers Frayed At Corners, CHIPPING Along Bottom Edge Of Spine. Dust Jacket LITELY Worn, Small TINY Losses At Edges, A Few Short Closed Tears. 311 PGS + ADS. Sm 8vo. Gorey illustrated boards. White end papers. 316 pages. Illustrated dust-jacket (with price clipped) has slight wear to top edges, else Fine. Toledano B9c. Looking Glass Library No. 9, with 28 Looking Glass Library titles listed at end, but lacking the rear cover "GIBRALTAR LIBRARY BINDING" imprint noted by Toledano. 13th Tree By R. H. Malden, Stevenson, Nesbit, Stoker, Tom Hood, Monkey's Paw By W.W. Jacobs, Wilkie Collins,Casting the Runes by M. R. James, WHAT CHILD OR ADULT DOES NOT ENJOY BEING Pleasurably… Read More

HBDJ, Hardcover. Condition: Fine-. Dust Jacket Condition: . Gorey (illustrator). 1959, 1st edition, EARLY ISSUE, FINE-/VG + . 314 Pp. + 2 Pp Catalog Of 28 Titles At End. THICK COLOR Illustrated Boards MATCH DJ., Original Format, few minor and small smudges at text block edge; light rubbing at corners and spine ends; Very Good, clean text (no markings), secure binding, supple pages.28 Titles Listed At Rear THRU TAPESTRY ROOM, Dust Jacket Priced $1.95. Book Clean, Hinges Solid, Covers Frayed At Corners, CHIPPING Along Bottom Edge Of Spine. Dust Jacket LITELY Worn, Small TINY Losses At Edges, A Few Short Closed Tears. 311 PGS + ADS. Sm 8vo. Gorey illustrated boards. White end papers. 316 pages. Illustrated dust-jacket (with price clipped) has slight wear to top edges, else Fine. Toledano B9c. Looking Glass Library No. 9, with 28 Looking Glass Library titles listed at end, but lacking the rear cover "GIBRALTAR LIBRARY BINDING" imprint noted by Toledano. Gorey illustration on title page of all 12… Read More