A Mirror for Witches, in Which Is Reflected the Life, Machinations, and Death of Famous Doll Bilby, Who, With a More Than Feminine Perversity, Preferred a Demon to a Mortal Lover. Here Is Also Told How and Why a Righteous and Most Awfull Judgement Befell Her, Destroying Both Corporeal Body and Immortal Soul [Signed]

Esther Forbes; Robert Gibbings [illus.]

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1928

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. First Trade Edition, with no additional printings listed. Signed by the author without inscription on front free endpaper. Octavo; [vi], 213pp. Publishers red cloth with black lettering. Missing dust jacket. Boards lightly shelfworn, with a patch of surface dampstaining / fading at top front near spine and a small white spot at top back. Spine darkened, with tugging and a bit of fraying at head and tail. Some blind writing impressions on front free endpaper with faint creasing at top corner. Pages a touch toned but unmarked. Binding is sound. Historical fiction set in and around the Salem witch hysteria. In her bibliography America in Historical Fiction, Vandelia VanMeter blurbs: "In England, Doll witnesses the execution of her parents, who were accused of witchcraft. Rescued by a sea captain, she is then taken to Massachusetts. Hated by a foster mother determined to brand her as a witch, and driven by her own fears, Doll's Actions result in her trail for witchcraft. This highly acclaimed work retains the flavor of the seventeenth century." A signed limited slipcased edition was also issued in a run of 220 copies, 200 were made available. [BLEILER CHECKLIST p. 75; DICKINSON 40; VANMETER 30]. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 26300

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A Mirror for Witches, in Which Is Reflected ...
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
Erscheinungsdatum: 1928
Zustand: Very Good
Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers
Auflage: 1. Auflage