New York
by Gorey, Edward, et al.
New York: Anchor / Doubleday. Three years after graduating from Harvard in 1950, Edward Gorey moved to New York to work in the art department of the newly founded Anchor Books division at Doubleday. The brainchild of two young editors, Jacob Epstein and Barbara Zimmerman, Anchor led a new wave of imprints offering high-quality but affordable paperback reprints of the classics, as well as literary fiction and serious non-fiction. Soon followed by New Directions, Meridian, Vintage, and others, Anchor intended their paperbacks to be kept and valued rather than destined for the junk pile. "Printed on quality paper and with sturdier bindings than mass-market (truncated)