A Mirror for Witches
by Forbes, Esther
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First trade edition. 8vo. Cream coloured cloth spine with red paper title label, patterned paper boards, red endpapers, top edge stained red, small bite out of the margin of page 3, otherwise a sweet little copy, clean and unworn in a tight and square binding. Price intact dust jacket with a few light nicks at the edges, a small crease and short closed tear to bottom edge of front cover and a sunned spine. Nice copy. Woodcuts by Robert Gibbings.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4052
- Title
- A Mirror for Witches
- Author
- Forbes, Esther
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1928
Terms of Sale
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Biblio member since 2012
Toronto, Ontario
About Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Interesting and unusual books and printed matter. Visual items, illustrated books, private press, mythology/folklore, modern first editions. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and theIndependent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)
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