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The Warlock of Westfall
by Fisher, Leonard Everett
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Book in fine condition./Price clipped dust jacket with white mark on front panel. 1" closed tear at top edge. Some rubbing along edges.
- ISBN 10
- 0385071256
- ISBN 13
- 9780385071253
- Seller
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Toledo, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Co, 1974. Tall 8vo. 119 pp. Blue cloth stamped in gold on spine. Purple endpapers. Purple speckled bottom edge of text block. Book in fine condition./Price clipped dust jacket with white mark on front panel. 1" closed tear at top edge. Some rubbing along edges.. Illustrated with haunting woodblock prints by the author.. The Warlock of Westfall is the tale of Samuel Swift, a lonely, eccentric bachelor in his late seventies who lives the life of a recluse near the village of Westfall, Massachusetts. His loneliness leads him to invent an imaginary family, and the discovery of his "family" leads to his arrest, trial, and execution as a disciple of the devil. But there is more to this story of a community's fight against Satan, as the reader will discover in this beautifully illustrated historical novel.
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- Bookseller
- Frogtown Books, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 227
- Title
- The Warlock of Westfall
- Author
- Fisher, Leonard Everett
- Illustrator
- Illustrated with haunting woodblock prints by the author.
- Format/Binding
- Tall 8vo. 119 pp. Blue cloth stamped in gold on spine. Purple endpapers. Purple speckled bottom edge of text block
- Book Condition
- Used - Book in fine condition.
- Jacket Condition
- Price clipped dust jacket with white mark on front panel. 1" closed tear at top edge. Some rubbing along edges.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385071256
- ISBN 13
- 9780385071253
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- Witchcraft
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