New York: Viking, (1959). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 246 pp. Original quarter yellow cloth over teal cloth-covered boards, stamped in black, in original unclipped ($3.95) dust-jacket. Mild edge wear, particular to spine ends and corners, with a few small tears and chips to spine ends. Nicks, handling and shelf wear commensurate with use. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Small smudge spot to spine cloth. Top stain still mostly vibrant - with a previous marked price (of 10c in marker). Light curling to spine ends. Interior is clean and unmarked. Perhaps near fine, overall and a wonderful, collector’s copy.

Dust Jacket: Near Fine

Hardcover: Near Fine

“A finalist for the National Book Award and considered one of the best literary ghost stories published during the 20th century, it has been made into two feature films and a play, and is the basis of a Netflix series. Jackson's novel relies on terror rather than horror to elicit emotion in the reader, using complex relationships between the mysterious events in the house and the characters' psyches. The author decided to write "a ghost story" after reading about a group of nineteenth century "psychic researchers" who studied a house and somberly reported their supposedly scientific findings to the Society for Psychic Research. What Jackson discovered in their "dry reports was not the story of a haunted house, it was the story of several earnest, I believe misguided, certainly determined people, with their differing motivations and background."