SHIRLEY JACKSON. — Raising Demons.

Michael Joseph Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing), issued the same year as the US edition. 8vo. 240pp. Black cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine with a small gilt-stamped decoration. Top edge lightly dust soiled, and with some quite light partial toning to the free endpapers. Binding just a fraction tender at the half-title. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper designed by Freda Nichols, a little soiled, faded and marked, and chipped with a little loss to the upper edge (impacting no lettering), and with one or two tiny fractions of further loss from the lower edge. The noted macabre author's second 'domestic memoir', a series of stories that form a novel and serve as a follow-up to 'Life Among the Savages' (1952). Jackson of course is most famous for her 1959 gothic horror 'The Haunting of Hill House'., Very Good, Good