A Selection of Edward Gorey’s non-Anchor work in the Art Department at Doubleday & Company, 1953-1960

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Gellhorn, Martha. The Honeyed Peace. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc.; [1953]. Jacket by Edward S. Gorey(sic). Design by Diana Klemin.

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Bennett, Kem. The Devil's Current. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.; 1953. Published for the Crime Club. Jacket by Edward S. Gorey.

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Field, Henry. The Track of Man. Adventures of an Anthropologist. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.; 1953. Jacket.

Eustis, Helen. The Fool Killer. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc; 1954. Jacket.

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Gogarty, Oliver St. John. It isn't This Time of Year at All! An Unpremeditated Autobiography. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc.; 1954. Jacket. Book designed by Diana Klemin.

Blotner, Joseph L. The Political Novel. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1955. Doubleday Short Studies in Political Science. SSPS 18. Typography.

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Gogarty, Oliver St. John. Start from Somewhere Else; An exposition of With and Humor Polite and Perilous. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.; 1955. Jacket. Book designed by Diana Klemin.

Barth, John. The Sot-Weed Factor. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960. Jacket. First Edition. An expensive Gorey jacket.

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Gaster, Theodor H. The Dead Sea Scriptures. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.; 1956. Jacket and typography by Gorey.

Simenon, Georges. No Vacation for Maigret. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.; 1953.Crime Club Edition, $2.75. Jacket. A very scarce item.

Amis, Kingsley. Lucky Jim. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.; 1954. 1st American edition. Jacket. An Expensive Gorey jacket.

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Nearing, H. Jr. The Sinister Researches of C.P. Ransom. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company; 1954. 1st edition. Doubleday Science Fiction. Jacket.

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Terry, Walter. Star Performance. The Story of the World's Great Ballerinas. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.; 1954. Illustrations by Marta Becket. Typography by Gorey

Toynbee, Philip. The Garden to the Sea. Garden City, N.Y., 1954: Doubleday & Company, Inc.; 1954. Jacket.

Maziere, Francis. Expedition Tumuc-Humac. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.; 1955. Designed by Alma Reese Cardi. Jacket.

Additional titles (not pictured) include:

Wilson, Earl. Look Who's Abroad Now. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.; 1953. Jacket.

Gabor, Eva. Orchids & Salami; a Gay and Impudent Memoir. New York: Doubleday & Company; 1954. Jacket.

von Salomon, Ernst. Fragebogen [The Questionnaire]. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.; 1955. Jacket.

Gorey continued to do an occasional jacket for the Doubleday imprints after he left Doubleday in 1960, but most of his work in the Art Department from 1955 to 1960 focused on Anchor Books and Image Books.