Description
Signed first edition of An Acceptable Time by Madeleine L’Engle, the final work in her “Time Quintet.”
Octavo, [viii], 343pp, [1]. Full red cloth, title in silver on spine. Stated “First Edition, 1989” on copyright page. Solid text block, a fine example. In the publisher’s dust jacket, price-clipped, light shelf wear, a near fine example.
Signed by the author on the title page: “For Brooks – even now – Madeleine L’Engle.”
Madeleine L’Engle’s Time Quintet includes the following works: A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time. This work’s title comes from Psalm 69:13, which states: “But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Lord, at an acceptable time.”
