The Haunting of Hill House; Illustrations by Jonathan Marks Barravecchia
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2022. Signed Limited Edition, #94 / 1200. Deep green leather with four raised bands. Gilt titling blocked in black on the spine with rules and flourishes in other spine panels. The front and rear cover has an unsettling, poignant illustration of a spiral staircase and penetrating human eye in gilt and black. 9.25" x 11.25", 274 pp. Colophon page signed and numbered in silver ink by the illustrator, Easton Press COA laid in. Includes ten [10] tipped-in color plates and numerous text illustrations. The plates conform to Barravecchia's style of Abstract Expressionism, and compliment the manifestations of madness revealed in the plot. Shirley Jackson is perhaps most well known for her short story, "The Lottery". This book was first published by Viking in 1959 and became a major motion picture first in 1963 (Robert Wise) and remade in 1999 (Jon de Bont). The book is in Fine condition, near as new, origionally purchased for shelf value, never read. All edges gilt. / Slip case in green cloth, matching the leather cover. Color, glossy illustration on the front of a disturbed young woman, one of the internal plates, bordered in gilt rule with a flourish border. Fine condition with some inconsequential rub on the rear, it has done its job to protect this artistic volume. Item #3432
"Hill House, not same, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more." (p 1).
Price: $400.00