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Shirley Jackson The Haunting of Hill House. 1959

Currency:USD Category:Books / Antiquarian & Collectible Start Price:390.00 USD Estimated At:800.00 - 1,000.00 USD
Shirley Jackson The Haunting of Hill House. 1959
<B>Shirley Jackson. </B></I><B><I>The Haunting of Hill House</B></I></B></I>. New York: The Viking Press, 1959. <BR>First edition. Octavo. 246 pages. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.<BR><BR>Publisher's teal cloth-covered boards shelf-backed in yellow cloth with black titles. Top edge stained black. The book is in excellent condition, with minimal edge and corner wear. Text edges minimally toned. The price-clipped dust jacket shows light sunning to the spine, minor toning to the panels, but not the flaps, and minimal wear at the spine ends. Still, a very attractive near fine copy.<BR><BR>Jackson opened her <I>magnum opus</B></I> with these lines: "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone." <I>From the Robert and Diane Yaspan Collection.</B></I><BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Books & Catalogs (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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