Puffball by Weldon, Fay - 1980

New York: Summit Books, 1980. First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Green paper-covered boards with green backstrip and gilt lettering. Rubbing to head and heel of spine. Previous owner signature to front endpaper. Text clean, tight and white. Un-clipped DJ has shelf wear, rubbing and chipping to head and heel of sunned spine. Tear to upper edge of front cover near spine. Text is clean and bright, no marks, soil to closed outside edges. A tale of witchcraft and childbirth. "A magical writer who lays out the ingredients of her brew with a kind of manipulative glee, coolly moulding her characters and then neatly skewering them with mockery. Each paragraph seems to have been precisely measured out as though the whole book were designed to be a seductive spell and the reader its helpless victim." (so raves the Daily Mail in their review)