Special Delivery: A Useful Book For Brand-New Mothers Shirley Jackson; Advice By Edmund N. Joyner Iii; Illustrated By Dorothea Fox Children's,Humor

Second printing. Book appears unread, with a couple of small smudges to front endpaper and a touch of sunning to very top edge of boards. Price-clipped dust jacket is unfaded but shows some rubbing and edgewear, with foxing spots to back panel (see photos). A collection of 35 essays, including a dozen new pieces by Shirley Jackson, 'created solely for the use and enoyment of that very special person -- the woman about to become a mother for the first time.' New and reprinted pieces by Cornelia Otis Skinner, Newton Newkirk, B.J. Chute, Christopher Morley, Don Marquis, Ogden Nash, Robert Benchley, C.B. Palmer, and others. A surprisingly uncommon Jackson title, published a year after 'The Haunting of Hill House' and remarkably hard to find. In the vein of her marvelous collections of humorous parenthood stories, 'Life Among the Savages' (1953) and 'Raising Demons' (1957). 175 pages.