Jackson shirley

1958 · 130014 — 1958. First Edition. Signed. JACKSON Shirley. The Sundial. New York: Farrar Straus and Cudahy 1958. Octavo original half gray cloth original dust jacket. $4200.First edition of Jackson’s bleakly satirical novel inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: ""For Eleanor and Franklin affectionately Shirley.""Appearing only one year before her classic horror novel The Haunting of Hill House 1959 Shirley Jackson's Sundial shares that work's psychologically thrilling approach to terror in its own story of 12 people living in an isolated mansion awaiting the prophesied end of the world. It is a tale that again confirms Jackson's ""jeweler's eye for the microscopic degrees by which a personality creeps into madness"" Jonathan Letham Salon ""written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh"" Victor LaValle Slate. Jackson was as The New York Times observed always ""a true storyteller with a rich and haunted imagination and she could walk unafraid in regions where love and murder have each other's names and speak each other's tongues."" Barron 6-182. Tymn 4-120. Very slight toning and rubbing to spine ends and dust jacket spine. A near-fine inscribed copy. hardcover