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Looking Glass Library

LGL

Gorey at LUC.edu : Looking Glass Library with linked cover images and titles list

newspapers

[1] NYT 1959-08-15 p15 --announcement of the new series, inclg "Men and Gods. 32 Greek Myths.", $1.50 1959-09-15 from LGL // 475 Madison Avenue // New York 22, "original unabridged text and fifteen to 300 black-and-white line drawings within the text"

[2] LCJ 1959-11-01 p72 (or 4:6?) --Random House series Looking Glass Library (10), Legacy Library (10), Shirley Temple (5)

CT -11-01 --eds. Epstein, Carroll, and Norman Podhoretz; consulting eds. Auden, Phyllis McGinley, Wilson; "Wherever possible, the original illustrations have been reproduced"

[3] NYT 1959-11-01 pBRA59 Thomas Lask

[4] NYHT -11-22 Margaret Sherwood Libby --only 3 are straight reissues of text and illustrations from one original book, plus Lear is compiled from multiple books; new illustrations for 4 books (#2, 4, 9, 10)(Lang, Warner, Gorey, Doyle)

1. 10 Doyle at Amazon w cover image --NEED cover image

Gorey A Bug Book, unnumbered picture book, Fo[5] one report as LGL

Evidently #1-10 were published September 1959 (1959-09-15 per newspaper coverage), #11-15 Spring 1960 and #16-23 Autumn 1960 [unless some during Winter or Summer], #24-28 sometime 1961.

retailer Brentano [6] CT 1960-05-22 pC8 --5 more, 15 now available

[7] Naomi Lewis Victorian Studies 4.2 (1960-12-01 p170-73

retailer Brentano [8] NYT 1960-06-14 p26 --"Now! Five New Books in This Fabulous Series!", as $1.50 each (total, 15)

1960 series advertisement [9] NYT 1960-12-04 pBR63 ; now as $1.95 each (23 listings)

T16009 #18 done 1. Nesbit, E. Five Children and It. N.D.  Illustrations by J. S. Goodall. [not original]
T1399115 P691951 2. Lang, Andrew. Ed.  The Blue Fairy Book. c1959.  Illustrations by Reisie Lonette. [new] --NEED cover image, artist
T1365 3. Macdonald, George. The Princess and the Goblin. N.D. Illustrations by Arthur Hughes.
T2462641 4. Warner, Rex.  Men and Gods.  c1959 and [196?]. Two versions.  Illustrations by Edward Gorey. [new]
-- 5. Seton, Ernest Thompson.  Wild Animals I Have Known,  N.D.  Illustrations by Ernest Thompson Seton.
? 6. Hale, Lucretia.P. The Peterkin Papers. N.D.  Illustrations by Lucretia P. Hale.
-- 7. Lear, Edward.  A Book of Nonsense. N.D. Illustrations by Edward Lear.
-- 8 . Smith, Janet.Adam.  The Looking Glass Book of Verse.  c1959.  Illustrations by Consuelo Joerns.
T822137 9. Gorey, Edward. Editor.  The Haunted Looking Glass:  Ghost Stories. c1959.  Illustrations by Edward Gorey. [new] --NEED publ date, price
T1604 10. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan.  The Lost World.  c1959.  Illustrations by Gil Walker. [new] --q
.Gil Walker [10] --nidb (2)[many] https://lccn.loc.gov/n85177287 https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85-177287 --mainly children's non-fiction

Looking Glass Library LGL publications indb: #2 9 10 16 18 21

LGL 1961

Gorey is art director and partner, has illustrated 3, five more this autumn

The Phantom Tollbooth $3.95 "a recent offering from The [LGL], long[!] an imprimatur of excellence in children's books" LCJ 1961-11-12 p72 (or 4:7)

[11] NYT 1961-11-12 pBRA62 Thomas Lask "Repeat Performances" --inclg 5 LGL ; Edgar Allan Poe Stories (Platt and Munk, $2.95); Martin Pippin $4 ; Light Princess &ot $4.95 ; The Magic Chalk McKay, $3.95

The Magic Chalk Kirkus as 1959-09-01, starred

EN: The Magic Chalk as 1949

LC [1948] https://lccn.loc.gov/49025660, [1959] https://lccn.loc.gov/59009057

Zinken Hopp --nidb EN https://lccn.loc.gov/n79006718

illus. Malvin Neset NO

[12] LCJ 1962-11-11 p77 (4:7) covers four volumes as new this autumn!

Haunted Looking Glass, anth., NYRB 2001 at Amazon

Looking Glass Library

Newspaper coverage

ProQuest search 1959 (18 from June)

Adverts only

[13] Chi-11-01 C10 Dr Seuss, Shirley Temple and LGL #1-10 $1.50 each

[14] NYT-11-08 BR17 ; #1-10 with blurbs

Was-11-15 L12 ; shorter intro with #1-10

Chi-12-06 C5 ; Kroch's & Brentanos

Chi-12-07 A2 ; Maurice L Rothschild & Co

Earliest

[15] Chi-6-28 G4 Fanny Butcher "The Literary Spotlight" [Louis G. Cowan, TV Executive] "part owners of the LGL, wh, in Oct, will begin repr great works of children's lit in expensive editions for readers 8 to 12"

NYT-08-16 welcomes "next month"

Bos-09-27 53 "this week"

Chi-11-01 B4 "now available"

[16] NYT-11-01 BRA59 --critical of the kerfluffle

[17] NYHT-11-22 E16 --another review

1960 (23 hits)

Earliest

Bos-04-24 C23 "this week" 5 more named

Chi-05-08 B20 "recently" confirms that

RH advertisement NYHT-05-08 17, NYT-05-08 BRA36; "New titles just published" 5, Phoenix to Otto

... skipped 0619 to 1113 (six)

[18] NYHT-06-19 E10 "E. Nesbit Books"

NYT-10-09 BR41, #1-10 boxed $19.50

LAT-11-27 N15 : Bennett Cerf recommends list of 134 with order form; LGL $1.95 each as #118 to 123

NYHT-12-04 D48 (8 new titles), NYT-12-04 (all 23 titles)

1961 (7 hits)

[19] NYT-05-07 BR8 : 5 more this autumn, 3 illus Gorey, including "The Bug Book"

NYT-10-08 BR32 "Comic" review

[20] NYT-11-12 BRA62 ; cover the other 4 among others inclg two Coward Nesbit

[21] NYHT-12-17 E13 "Comic" among others "For Boys and Girls" Margaret Sherwood Libby

1962 (2 hits) --one covers "Verse" as new

Newsday-08-11 25 "Critics Corner" by Virginia Pasley(?), based on interview with Edward Gorey ... LGL "still going strong" (NOT)

1963/64 (0 hits)

Works

at Loyola Chicago luc.edu --list of 28 known to be incomplete

"A complete set of the 28 volumes in the Looking Glass Library are in the collection."

ISFDB Publisher LGL --3 publ, 3 titles 1959/60

ISFDB Publ series LGL --1 as Epstein & Carroll, else Random House >1984

28 published 1959 to 1961, series editor Edward Gorey

Nesbit 4, Lang ed. 3, Macdonald 2, Doyle 2, Leavitt ed. 2

Titles in database

2010(3) 1. Nesbit, E. Five Children and It. N.D. Illustrations by J.S. Goodall. --nidb this ed.

2010 11. Nesbit, E. The Phoenix and the Carpet. N.D. Illustrations by J.S. Goodall. --nidb this ed.

[1960pv] 18. Nesbit, E The Story of the Amulet. N.D. Illustrations by J.S. Goodall. P440181 pv Chavey, no cover --nidb 2010

2010 24. Nesbit, E. The Book of Dragon. N.D. Illustrations by H.R. Miller. --EN.wiki Ruth Stiles "Gannett introduced the 1991 Yearling edition of Edith Nesbit's collection The Book of Dragons (OCLC 696817759), later issued in the Looking Glass Library (2013, OCLC 869499406)." --nidb c.1960

2. Lang, Andrew. Ed. The Blue Fairy Book. c1959. Illustrations by Reisie Lonette. --nidb c.1960

13. Lang, Andrew. Ed. The Red Fairy Book. c.1960. Reisie Lonette. --nidb c.1960

20. Lang, Andrew. Ed. The Green Fairy Book,. c1960. Illustrations by Reisie Lonette. --nidb c.1960

3. Macdonald, George. The Princess and the Goblin. N.D. Illustrations by Arthur Hughes. --nidb c.1960

12. MacDonald, George. The Princess and Curdie. N.D. Illustrations by Helen Stratton. --nidb c.1960

4. Warner, Rex. Men and Gods. c1959 and [196?]. Two versions. Illustrations by Edward Gorey. --nidb c.1960

[1959] 9. Gorey, Edward. Editor. The Haunted Looking Glass: Ghost Stories. c1959. Illustrations by Edward Gorey. P361048 ✓ --LCCN 84-12348 1984; LCCN 00-12341 2001

10. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Lost World. c1959. Illustrations by Gil Walker.--nidb --nidb this ed.

26. Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. c1961. Illustrations by Gil Walker. --nidb this ed.

[1960] 16. Baum, L.Frank. The Wizard of Oz & The land of Oz. c1960. Illustrations by Rita Fava. P335536 betrays Rtrace ✓ --OMNIBUS T[22] with multiple titles

1960pv 21. Wells, H.G. The War of the Worlds. c1960. Cover and illustrations by Edward Gorey. P503668 pv Markwood

25. Hope, Anthony. The Prisoner of Zenda,. c1960. Illustrations by Leonard Rosoman. --nidb c.1960

Other

a 5. Seton, Ernest Thompson. Wild Animals I Have Known, N.D. Illustrations by Ernest Thompson Seton.

a 6. Hale, Lucretia.P. The Peterkin Papers. N.D. Illustrations by Lucretia P. Hale. "humorous stories" for children --EN

a 7. Lear, Edward. A Book of Nonsense. N.D. Illustrations by Edward Lear.

- 8. Smith, Janet.Adam. The Looking Glass Book of Verse. c1959. Illustrations by Consuelo Joerns.--nidb

a 14. Leavitt, Hart .Day. Ed. The Looking Glass Book of Stories. c1960. Cover by Edward Gorey (?). LCCN 61-13201

a 28. Leavitt, Hart.Day Leavitt. The Comic Looking Glass. 1961. Cover and illustrations byEdward Gorey. LCCN-60-9021

a 15. Pyle, Howard. Otto of the Silver Hand. N.D. Illustrations by Howard Pyle.

(188)

- 17. Yonge, Charlotte .M. Countess Kate. N.D. Illustrations by Gwen Raverat.

https://lccn.loc.gov/n50014041 (211); Raverat https://lccn.loc.gov/n85296078 (?)

- 19. Williamson, Henry. Tarka the Otter. c1960. Illustrations by C.F. Tunnicliffe.--nidb

a 22. Stockton, Frank.R. Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts. c1960. Illustrations by Bernard Krigstein.

https://lccn.loc.gov/no2004106965 (?)

a 23. Hughes, Richard. The Spider's Palace. c1960. Illustrations by George Charlton.--niEN

EN https://lccn.loc.gov/n50034197 "He wrote volumes of children's stories, including The Spider's Palace."

shdbe indb Goodreads shows [23] 1960 LGL and 1976 Puffin mmp

a 27. Mrs. Molesworth. The Tapestry Room. N.D. Illustrations by Walter Crane.

NEED? Fo[24] Fo[25] ; Goodreads [26]

HDL 1914 HDL first printing with later adverts?

LGL [196-?] o[27] --no other found, except 1 e-copy as as [Epstein] o[28]

also by Mrs. Molesworth (her masterpiece, some say)

NEED The Carved Lions Fo[29] o[30]-HDL (also Baldwin Coll.); Goodreads [31]

at ISFDB

Others in database as LGL (all as Random House)

1984 The Wizard of Oz (abridged) 57pp
1985 1987 Tales from the Jungle Book
2012 The Jungle Book

"Looking Glass Library" in title Notes (0) publ Notes (11) 2017-03-08

1948 Five Children and It, regarding c. 1960
1948/49 Phoenix, regarding c. 1960
1949 Amulet, regarding c. 1960
2010 The Book of Dragons
2010 Pyle, Twilight Land P303826 --nidb c.1960 ; all three 2010 in db lack LGL

NEED copy contents, with page numbers at least to 438-page eds/printings

Wikipedia identifies also

Edward Gorey, The Bug Book, 1959 LCCN 60-10151 — picture book

Walter Crane (credited) signature looks like "Swain Sc" The Brown Bull at HDL

Anthony Hope https://lccn.loc.gov/n50035272 (?)

1894 Zenda non-genre?

Zenda 1890s eds?

Molesworth

The Tapestry Room somewhere above -- inscription 1880?

1895 Lon The Carved Lions at HDL 1-195 --as London 1895, Norwich Press ; maybe uniform edition (see adverts) ; inscription 1895

1899 Phi Magic Nuts at HDL [5]-198

Wedgewood https://lccn.loc.gov/n2005057634 (?) https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2005-057634

[32] "Important Books of 1937" by MLB - reviewed and reviews to come

1958 (no other hits for "The Magic City" 1950 to 1959

Moomin midwinter T17326 LCCN https://lccn.loc.gov/62017844 Walck 1967 c1958

AuthorUpdate --LGL illustrators (.) among others

 lw Earle Walbridge 247040 (7) http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50-021387 

probably "curator of the library housed at the Harvard Club" as of January 1960, mentioned in a memoir by Donald A. Yates concerning a Baker Street Irregulars dinner in NYC

el   Henry Allen Wedgwood 210662 (4)
els  Anthony Hope 16122 (142)
 lw  E. H. Strain 192011 (0) https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85-830211
el  .L. Leslie Brooke, Leslie Brooke
el  .Leonard Rosoman 228623 (4)
el  .Gwen Raverat 210663 (21)
 lw .Reisie Lonette 227462 (22) https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50-044338
el  .John R. Neill 5102 (89)
el   Hart Day Leavitt 24118 (8)
el   Lucretia P. Hale 112356 (36)