The Lottery: or, The adventures of James Harris
de Jackson, Shirley
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good Condition/Good
- Librería
-
melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Sobre este artículo
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, New York, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Grey coloured cloth covered boards with black coloured titles to the back strip. Plaintext dustwrapper with yellow and black coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. Quoting from the rear panel blurb " ... The twenty-five stories in this volume represent a collection of Shirley Jackson's work. Through some of them wanders James Harris, the daemon lover in many guises, his veneer of ordinary covering his elusive, satanic nature, one of the more intriguing of the author's urbane the evil characters." A little bumping of the lower book corners with softening of the back strip stop tanning of the text block edges and pages. Previous owners name and rubber stamp to the free front end page, front paste-down and the page following the free front end page. At some stage in the past the book had been covered and held down with tape – there is tape residue to the end pages. Rubbing and a little creasing of the dustwrapper edges with a's very small tear to the top edge of the front panel. Sunning to the back strip. Tape residue is also present to the dustwrapper fold over's. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [12], 3 - 306, [4] pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Short Stories; Inventory No: 0289573. .
Sinopsis
The Lottery was first published in 1949, and has been shivering the spines of readers ever since. In this short story, we see an idyllic village with a common green where the townspeople are gathering in a hum of excitement, and we learn that they are about to draw for their annual lottery. The winner of the lottery faces an interesting experience... This sinister look at the nature of humanity and traditions of old is a high school English literature standard.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 0289573
- Título
- The Lottery: or, The adventures of James Harris
- Autor
- Jackson, Shirley
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good Condition
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Farrar, Straus, & Giroux
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1949
- Palabras clave
- BZDB2 Shirley Jackson, short stories, horror, slice of life, humour Fiction; Short Stories; Unbranded Jackson, Shirley The Lottery: or, The adventures of James Harris
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Short Stories;
Términos de venta
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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Sobre el vendedor
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
melbourne, Victoria
Sobre Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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