Patchwork Quilt

(No place - New York): Gentlemen's Quarterly, (No date - probably 1958).

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Unbound. Folio. Four loose tall quarto proof sheets printed rectos only, printing this complete short story by the daughter of Shirley Jackson, then age sixteen, and representing her first published work. The story is very much in the style of her mother, and exhibits considerable talent, perhaps to the extent that she could have had guidance from her mother, or her father, the literary essayist and critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Aside for some preliminary matter for a collection of her mother's unpublished stories, the author doesn't appear to have published much else. Folded once horizontally, with very light wear, near fine. Possibly unique.

Item #84513

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Item #84513 Patchwork Quilt. Sarah HYMAN, Shirley Jackson.

Shirley Jackson
birth name: Shirley Hardie Jackson
born: 12/14/1916
died: 8/8/1965

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American novelist and short-story writer known for her sublte psychological horror. Her much-anthologized story "The Lottery" caused a sensation when it was published in The New Yorker. Among her novels are The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.more

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