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A Mirror for Witches
by Forbes, Esther
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket; Corners bumped and rubbed, page edges lightly foxed, tape removal marks on pastedowns.
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Good with no dust jacket; Corners bumped and rubbed, page edges lightly . foxed, tape removal marks on pastedowns.. 1928. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. #43 of 220 copies. Signed by the author on the colophon page. Vellum spine titled in gilt with patterned cloth sides. Black and white woodcut frontispiece and other black and white woodcut illustrations by Robert Gibbings. A story of 17th century New England and their fascination with witchcraft. Ownership label of the author Phillip Van Doren Stern on front pastedown, ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 214 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46883
- Title
- A Mirror for Witches
- Author
- Forbes, Esther
- Illustrator
- Robert Gibbings
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket; Corners bumped and rubbed, page edges lightly foxed, tape removal marks on pastedowns.
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- 1920s Novels, Witches Fiction, OCCULT Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
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Selkirk, New York
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About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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- Vellum
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Colophon
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
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