By Susan Hill

New York: Walker and Company, (1969).

First American edition, first printing.

"First published in the United States of American in 1969" statement to the copyright page.

This acclaimed literary novel earned second-place for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.

Hill employs her unique writing craft with fully developed, unusual characters, and deals with age, the elderly, loneliness, eccentricity, and adds poignancy and humor to her story.

Dame Susan Hill is the highly lauded author of THE WOMAN IN BLACK, THE MIST IN THE MIRROR, and I'M KING OF THE CASTLE.

Very light age-toning to the end-papers as usual, some abrasions to the upper shelf-edges and to the upper edge of the rear cover, else very good in slate-gray linen over cream-gray boards with orange embossed titles to the spine; in a near fine dust jacket with art by Gene Vass, with two tiny tears to the rear panel at the upper shelf edges; original printed $5.95 price still intact to the front inner flap.

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