(GOREY EDWARD) THE LOOKING GLASS LIBRARY

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(GOREY, EDWARD.) THE LOOKING-GLASS LIBRARY. Volumes 1-10. Variously illustrated and designed by Gorey. 8vo, pictorial boards, spine ends worn with some loss; only The Looking Glass Book of Verse with dust jacket; bookplates on pastedowns; scarce original salmon-colored board box, top left edge split, scattered scuffing and rubbing. with a separate copy of the first trade edition, signed by gorey. 8vo, boards; dust jacket Toledano B9a (for The Haunted Looking-Glass). New York: Looking Glass Library (Random House), 1959

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Gorey left Doubleday in 1959 to join Jason Epstein (later of the New York Review of Books), Norman Podhoretz, and Celia Carroll at the successful but short-lived Looking Glass Library where he served as art director and editor.

The set contains original collections or reprints of various titles intended for adolescents; Numbers 4 and 9 have covers and text illustrations by Edward Gorey, others contain some lettering or design elements by him. Titles include: Nesbit. Five Children and It. Lang; editor. The Blue Fairy Book. MacDonald. The Princess and the Goblin. Warner. Men and Gods. Seton. Wild Animals I Have Known. Hale. The Peterkin Papers. Lear. A Book of Nonsense. Smith; editor. The Looking Glass Book of Verse. Gorey; editor. The Haunted Looking Glass. Doyle. The Lost World.