The Lottery Shirley Jackson [Very Good] [Hardcover]

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VERY GOOD DUST JACKET: Chipping to top and bottom of spine and all outside corners w/small voids to the top of spine. Spine sunned. Stressing/abrasions to spine hinges and flap folds w/toning to top edges of latter. Faint foxing spots to both panels, ditto to reverse, primarily spine area. A couple of small closed tears to bottom edge: front far left, back far left. Several minor soil spots: front top middle, back top right. In first 2 pics, paper insert placed inside for improved appearance. BOARDS: Very good condition. BOOK: A couple of faint foxing spots to front endpapers, ditto spotting to rear, primarily paste-down. Please inspect photos and read description carefully for condition details. More pics available on request. ********************************************** Here on offer is a very nice copy of Shirley Jackson's only short-story collection to appear in her lifetime, The Lottery, featuring the title story and 24 other selections. Jackson's most famous story, ""The Lottery"", first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948, established her reputation as a master of the horror tale. This copy is a 1st trade edition, 1st printing, 2nd state of the work published by Farrar, Straus and Company in 1949. The 2nd state dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve. ************************************************** ""One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson s 'The Lottery' created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker in 1948. ***** 'Power and haunting,' and 'nights of unrest' were typical reader responses. Today it is considered a classic work of short fiction, a story remarkable for its combination of subtle suspense and pitch-perfect descriptions of both the chilling and the mundane. ***** The Lottery and Other Stories, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites 'The Lottery' with twenty-four equally unusual short stories. Together they demonstrate Jackson's remarkable range -- from the hilarious to the horrible, the unsettling to the ominous -- and her power as a storyteller."" /////////////////////////////////////////////////// Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 August 8, 1965) was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. Her writing career spanned over two decades, during which she composed six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories. ///// Born in San Francisco, California, Jackson attended Syracuse University in New York, where she became involved with the university's literary magazine and met her future husband Stanley Edgar Hyman. After they graduated, the couple moved to New York City and began contributing to The New Yorker, with Jackson as a fiction writer and Hyman as a contributor to ""Talk of the Town"". . . . ///// After publishing her debut novel, The Road Through the Wall (1948), a semi-autobiographical account of her childhood in California, Jackson gained significant public...