We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
First UK edition, first printing of Jackson's gothic masterpiece, in the striking original dust jacket designed by Charles Gorham.
London: Michael Joseph, 1963. Publisher's original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt; pp. 190. A very good copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Binding sturdy, minimal wear to boards, foxing to edges of text block and scattered throughout pages. Owner's stamp and signature to flyleaf, small bookshop sticker to front pastedown with its residue to flyleaf, price erasure to flyleaf. Jacket remains bright and vivid with minor shelfwear, spine sunned. Presents well, protected in archival mylar.