JACKSON, Shirley

The Bird's Nest

First edition. A very small section of paper over the front hinge separated, else fine in very good dustwrapper with some rubbing and tiny nicks at the extremities. Inscribed by the author to her in-laws, the parents of her husband (and the dedicatee of this book), Stanley Edgar Hyman: "For Lulu and Pop. With all my love -- Shirley. June 1954." The recipients were, along with her own parents, the dedicatees of her book Life Among the Savages. A novel about a young woman with multiple personalities, employing Jackson's gift for the type of horror that doesn't require goblins under the bed. A splendid association.

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