The House With a Clock in Its Walls
(London): Hutchinson Junior Books, (1978).
Price: $500.00
Softcover. Uncorrected proof of first English edition. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. Printed salmon wrappers. Foxing on page edges, lightly sunned spine, very good. The author's first book for young readers and the first of many collaborations between Bellairs and Gorey. The first book in the author's Lewis Barnavelt series. *Kirkus Reviews* stated that Gorey's drawings of the house were "creepy-cozy". Basis for the 2018 film directed by Eli Roth and starring Jack Black and Cate Blanchett. Uncommon in this format.
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