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Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, New York, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Grey coloured cloth covered boards with black coloured titles to the back strip. Plaintext dustwrapper with yellow and black coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. Quoting from the rear panel blurb " ... The twenty-five stories in this volume represent a collection of Shirley Jackson's work. Through some of them wanders James Harris, the daemon lover in many guises, his veneer of ordinary covering his elusive, satanic nature, one of the more intriguing of the author's urbane the evil characters." A little bumping of the lower book corners with softening of the back strip stop tanning of the text block edges and pages. Previous owners name and rubber stamp to the free front end page, front paste-down and the page following the free front end page. At some stage in the past the book had been covered and held down with… Read More

UsedAcceptable. Item in acceptable condition including possible liquid damage. As well answers may be filled in. May be missing DVDs, CDs, Access code, etc. 100%Money-Back Guarantee! Ship within 24 hours!! This is a ex library book, stickers and markings accordingly.

Bentley Publishers, 1980-04-01. hardcover. Used: Good.

New York: Lion Books, 1950. 1st Edition . Mass Market Paperback. Good. Good first paperback printing. Binding square and tight. Pages clean with slight age toning. Wear and minor creases to wraps. Minor chip to edge of title and dedication pages. Outstanding collection of stories by the great American writer of the bizarre and ghostly. Good only but scarce.

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?)..

New York: Farrar, Straus & Company. CLEAN near fine 1949 hardcover with very good price clipped dust jacket. First Edition, early printing with 1949 on title page; no later printings noted on copyright page; lacking the FS colophon. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1949.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1949. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Boards are stained, corner's lightly bumped, with wear to bottom corners. Farrar Straus colophon on printers imprint page.