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Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good +. No Jacket. Green cloth boards have light wear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition ex-library. New York: Globe Book Company 1961 Hardcover. First edition. Photo-illustrated anthology [most short stories but also including the complete play of "Visit to a Small Planet" , 655+ pages. Reginald 09230. Rebound in blue buckrum with red spine lettering, ex-library copy usual flaws, plus some check marks to the contents page and owner's inscription at the rear. No jacket. clph.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condizione: Bien. Tapa dura. Buen estado. Ex libris. Dep. Legal: M. 20755-1968. Roces en bordes. Literatura norteamericana. S. XIX-XX Cuentos.

No edition/printing statement provided. 511 pages. Hardcover: H 19cm x L 21.75cm. Dust jacket with large losses to front panel and spine ends; other lesser chips, jagged tears, and creasing; some toning to flaps; front flap's bottom corner is clipped; dj presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Paper boards; small losses to spine ends with heel also bumped; glue repairs to surface paper tearing along front and rear joints; slender wear to boards' top and bottom edges. Text block edges toned with several stains. Personal bookplates of two different owners on front endpapers; toning to pages 100-101 from removed newspaper clipping; paper clip impressions at tops of pages 362-363, 404-405, and 428-429. Binding is firm. Page 511 notes that the publishers of the Looking Glass Library are Jason Epstein, Clelia Carroll, and Edward Gorey with consulting editors being W.H. Auden, Phyllis McGinley, and Edmund Wilson. Book's spine heel notes "LGL | 14" with page 511 listing fifteen books in the series (but citing "The Looking Glass Book of Stories" as twelfth sequentially) which may or may not be an issue point although it seems unlikely that the book would have enjoyed more than one printing. Edward Gorey (Edward St. John Gorey, 1925-2000) is credited as the illustrator of the dust jacket and boards (which share a matching design) as well as the title page and the four section titles on pages 9, 61, 255, and 403. An anthology of short stories compiled by Yale graduate and Phillips Andover Academy English instructor Hart Day Leavitt (1909-2008) which features thirty-three contributions by James Thurber, John Collier, Robert M. Coates, William Carlos Williams, E.B. White [Elwyn Brooks White], Saki [H.H. Munro - Hector Hugh Munro], Oscar Wilde, Stephen Vincent Benet, Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Frank R. Stockton, Fitz-James O'Brien, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Anton Chekov, Conrad Aiken, Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells [Herbert George Wells], Shirley Jackson, Frank O'Connor, et al.