THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

First edition with these illustrations, first printing. Limited edition. Signed by Joyce Carol Oates and Angie Hoffmeister. Issued with an illustration print by Hoffmeister that is not published in the book, housed in a dark grey card envelope. Original dark blue cloth with titles in orange foil and cream to the spine and illustrations in orange foil and cream to the upper and lower boards. Housed in an illustrated solander box with a magnetised central opening. Top edge orange foil. Endpapers illustrated in blue foil. Illustrated with seven colour plates by Hoffmeister, including two double-page spreads, as well as a number of black and white tailpieces. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. There is one tiny scuff to the top edge. The illustrated solander box, depicting the exterior of Hill House, the gates aligned with the opening, has small bumps to the top right and bottom left corners of the lower board and very slight rubbing at the corners. The box is otherwise firm, clean and sound. The print is in fine condition.

Issued in a limited edition of 250 copies, this example is numbered 92 and signed by Joyce Carol Oates and Angie Hoffmeister on a limitation sheet that is tipped in on the flyleaf. A beautiful and detailed edition Shirley Jackson's haunted house masterwork. 'The Haunting of Hill House' has been adapted for film twice, once in 1963 directed by Robert Wise and again in 1999 directed by Jan de Bont, both under the title 'The Haunting'. It was adapted into a television miniseries directed by Mike Flanagan in 2018, which was met with critical acclaim