JACKSON, Shirley

The Lottery or The Adventures of James Harris

First English edition. Slightly cocked, else near fine in very good dustwrapper with small chips at the extremities. Inscribed by the author to fellow author Paul Radin: "For Doris and Paul Radin -- with regards, Shirley Jackson 1951." In some sense a significant association: Radin, an important anthropologist, authored many books including some on religion among the American Indians and witchcraft. Jackson was a significant collector of books on witchcraft and certainly must have been aware of Radin's work. A collection of short fiction, well-crafted tales of psychological horror, including the justly-celebrated and much-anthologized title story which, when it was initially printed in The New Yorker, caused a furor and elicited more letters than any story up to that time. Seldom found inscribed. The author's most sought after title.

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