Rare inscribed first edition of Jackson's classic "disrespectful memoir of my children."
Very good in very good minus jacket.
Price: $3,500.00
"I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have passed magically away and the next time you look it will be bedtime."
Though best known for her gothic horror novels THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE and WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE, as well as for the classic story collection THE LOTTERY, Jackson also enjoyed success with the sly SAVAGES, one of her most beloved and best-selling books during her lifetime. Given Jackson's residence in rural Vermont (as chronicled in this book) away from major literary centers — as well as her early death at the age of 48 — books inscribed by Jackson remain decidedly scarce.
Read more: Kunitz, Twentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature (1973), 483.
First printing. New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, (1953). 8'' x 5.25''. Original full red cloth. In original unclipped ($3.00) color pictorial jacket designed by Maxwell Mays. Inscribed by Jackson on the front free endpaper: "For the Ford family / affectionately / Shirley Jackson." Jacket is about 3/16th of a inch shorter than book, likely production error, with attendant fading to head and tail of spine cloth. Jacket moderately toned and edgeworn with some soil here and there. Book has slight lean, fading top edge. Overall, sound.
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