The Lottery; or, the Adventures of James Harris
by Jackson, Shirley
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1949. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition / Later Printing. Small Thin Octavo. iv + 306 pp, 25 short stories, in V sections. No F&S colophon initials on t.p. thus a later printing. 5.7" x 8.25" gray cloth boards, black spine letters, in unclipped DJ (price $3.50). "Farrar, Straus, & Young" on book spine. "Farrar, Straus, & Cudahy" on the DJ rear panel, along with Christopher Morley's shrewd observations (4 short paragraphs) about the Lottery. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked, paper well-preserved. Gray cloth unworn. Yellow DJ wavy apparently from prior dampness along top edge, with edgewear closed tear, & a wrinkle along the rear top edge near the hinge & faint darkened streaks (soiling?)..
Synopsis
The Lottery was first published in 1949, and has been shivering the spines of readers ever since. In this short story, we see an idyllic village with a common green where the townspeople are gathering in a hum of excitement, and we learn that they are about to draw for their annual lottery. The winner of the lottery faces an interesting experience... This sinister look at the nature of humanity and traditions of old is a high school English literature standard.
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008784
- Title
- The Lottery; or, the Adventures of James Harris
- Author
- Jackson, Shirley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition / Later Printing
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Size
- Small Thin Octavo
- Keywords
- Shirley Jackson (December 14, 1916 - August 8, 1965 - author of The Haunting of Hill House
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE; MYSTERY & SCIFI;
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West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
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