The Sundial by Shirley Jackson [FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING] 1958

The Sundial by Shirley Jackson

FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1958] FARRAR STRAUS & CUDAHY

 U.S. 1st / 1st.  1958.  Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. 

Dust jacket is in great shape!  Vibrant and housed in protective mylar jacket;

Some tearing at both edges of spine.   Front and rear panels have clipped edges;  front panel has an unclipped price of $3.75, which has been crossed out and re-priced by hand.  

Book itself is excellent; cover is clean with bright unfaded title on cloth spine;  some tanning to boards.   Pages read beautifully;  good as new.  Tiny stamp on back flyleaf.  

Overall, a gorgeous copy of this rare first printing.

Before there was Hill House, there was the Halloran mansion of Jackson’s stunningly creepy fourth novel, The Sundial.

When the Halloran clan gathers at the family home for a funeral, no one is surprised when the somewhat peculiar Aunt Fanny wanders off into the secret garden. But then she returns to report an astonishing vision of an apocalypse from which only the Hallorans and their hangers-on will be spared, and the family finds itself engulfed in growing madness, fear, and violence as they prepare for a terrible new world. - Bookshop Apocalypse