first edition
1951 · Boston
by [Shirley Jackson] Martha Foley
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951. Very Good -/Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket by John V. Morris retaining original price ($3.75), red topstain; xv,[1],366p. Moderate wear to jacket margins, light soil to upper cover cloth, old rubberstamp "TBH" to topstain, rear endpaper removed; overall a Good to Very Good copy.
Contents include "The Season of Divorce" by John Cheever, "The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin," by Tennessee Williams, and the eerie American Gothic parable "The Summer People," by Shirley Jackson. (Inventory #: 28936)
Contents include "The Season of Divorce" by John Cheever, "The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin," by Tennessee Williams, and the eerie American Gothic parable "The Summer People," by Shirley Jackson. (Inventory #: 28936)
