2024 Folio Society édition limitée : The Lottery and Other Dark Tales : Shirley Jackson

The Lottery and Other Dark Tales [Signed Limited Edition: New & Sealed]- Jackson, Shirley; Franklin, Ruth (Introduced by); Hoffmeister, Angie (Illustrated by)

London: Folio Society; 2025; Limited Edition of 250

Fine Binding

New & Sealed in Publishers Packaging

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Limited to just 250 copies, signed by both artist and introducer to the limitation tip, this exclusive Folio Society edition of The Lottery and Other Dark Tales features 20 of Shirley Jacksons most unsettling stories.

Poisoned-pen letters, unsettling motels, fractured marriages and missing girls abound in Shirley Jacksons carefully constructed stories of small-town America and the underlying darkness beneath the domesticity. With the publication of The Lottery in 1948, Jackson created a moral panic (as well as giving the world one of the greatest short stories in American literature) and revealed a style that breathes a building sense of dread, discomfort and eerie paranoia with each sentence.

Illustrated by the evocative and atmospheric ink and watercolours of Angie Hoffmeister, including a special giclée print of the author, this edition is accompanied by a new introduction by Jacksons biographer Ruth Franklin, who explores the authors themes of isolation and desire. This exclusive selection of stories contains many of Jacksons most well-known and applauded works, as well as some lesser-known pieces that display her ability to create atmosphere, suspense, and, ultimately, to shock.

This special limited edition is bound in screen-printed and blocked cloth and has silver gilded top page edges. It features 8 colour illustrations, including 3 double page spreads, along with integrated illustrated black and white tailpieces, and metallic blocked endpapers. 288 pages. 8¾ x 5½. Housed in a clamshell box with central magnetic opening, covered in printed paper. Print for framing printed on Natural Evolution paper. Printed and bound in Italy.

A new copy, sealed in the original packaging as received from the publisher. It will be shipped in an outer box for added protection.