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First published in the United States of America by The Viking Press 1962
Published in a Viking Compass edition 1970
Published in Penguin Books 1976
This edition with an introduction by Jonathan Lethem published 2006
Copyright © Shirley Jackson, 1962
Copyright renewed Barry Hyman, Sarah Webster, and Joanne Schnurer, 1990
Introduction copyright © Jonathan Lethem, 2006
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