The Velvet Bubble by Alice Winter SIGNED! [FIRST EDITION] 1965 • William Morrow

The Velvet Bubble by Alice Winter

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1965] WILLIAM MOROW & CO.

Front endpaper has been signed and personally inscribed by author Alice Winter.

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.  Like new. 

Some mild shelf / edge wear to an otherwise beautiful dust jacket, now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector

Book itself is pristine; looks and reads like new.  Stunning! 

A disturbing psychological horror about a young girl who wants to be the only one her father loves.

A new author and a first novel that so excited our editors and salesmen that it has been given the first Morrow Honor Book Award, an award for a work of particular excellence by an author appearing on the Morrow list for the first time. The Velvet Bubble is a beautifully done portrait of a girl under a compulsion she does not understand and what she makes of her world.  

"Mommy was dead now there was no one but Dorrie for Daddy to Love." 

On the day of her mother's funeral, Dorrie wrote in her journal that she'd always felt her mother and father were inside a velvet bubble that kept her apart from them. Now that her mother has died, Dorrie is sure she can join her father in the bubble, and works to make it happen. She tells how she deals with friends, relatives and housekeepers because she wants to make her father happy in a way her mother never could.