6/29/2023 0 Comments The haunting of hill house 1959![]() ![]() Hangsaman is Jackson s second novel following her debut The Road Through the Wall (1948) Her breakthrough came with the short story The Lottery, originally published in The New Yorker magazine (June 1948) and later included in the short-story anthology of the same name in 1949. It is clipped with a new USD 3 price stamped at the foot of the front flap as common. The dust jacket has small chips and shows typical edgwear. There are no other scribbles inside the book and the text is clean throughout. The boards are a little rubbed to the edges with the spine tips lightly pushed. Condition: at least a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with little flaws commensurate with age. ![]() Thus, it is no surprise that Jackson would inscribe a copy for him. ![]() Speirs and Shirley Jackson s husband Stanley Edgar Hyman new each other in the small literary critics circle. He contributed extensively to the influential quartely magazine Scrutiny (1932-1953) founded by F.R. Provenance: John Speirs was a British literary critic and author. Signed and inscribed by the author on the ffep: To John Speirs | with regards | Shirley Jackson | april 1951. Shirley Jackson (1951) Hangsaman, US first edition, first printing, published by Farrar, Starus and Young. ![]()
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