The Lottery: The Adventures of James Harris
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1949.
First edition. (First state with the "fs" logo on the copyright page. Jacket has first issue price of $2.75 and correct back panel and flap info: "Farrar, Straus and Company/ 53 East 34th Street, New York 16, N. Y.") [viii], 306 pp. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. Offsetting to end papers, cloth is bit grubby, worn at tips. Jacket has some chips along edges,scratch on front panel, small piece of archival mending tissue on verso near foot, price intact. A nice copy. The first publication in book form of Shirley Jackson's classic horror story "The Lottery," which debuted in The New Yorker in 1948, as well as other stories. Item #140901004
Price: $800.00