The New Yorker June 26 1948 / The Lottery by Shirley Jackson / Roger Duvoisin

  

"The Lottery" in The New Yorker; June 26, 1948. ; Roger Duvoisin [cover illustration] Title: "The Lottery" in The New Yorker; June 26, 1948 Publication: New York: The New Yorker, 1948.

New York: The New Yorker, 1948. Full-color paper wraps with cover illustration by Roger Duvoisin. Cover rubbed with two closed tears and creasing on bottom edge; small chip to top right corner; edge wear. Upper wrapper very nearly separated.

Gentle bend to the pages where the magazine was likely folded in half at some point and tucked into a jacket or bag. Pages inside clean and unmarked. Contains the first appearance of Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery.

Readers wrote in demanding to know what she meant by the story and some canceled their subscriptions. A tangible piece of New Yorker literary history.

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