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SCHIFF, STACY: : THE WITCHES: SALEM,1692

LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,2015.

ISBN 9781474602242.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE-/FINE. No owner inscrptn but a price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,colour photographic illustrated front of dw/dj with capitalised,matt,white-lettered part-title and other white lettered,numbered sub-title,and author's capitalised,matt,light khaki lettered name; spine/backstrip with thumbnail colour illustration to head of same and similarly coloured+lettered part-title and author's name as the front's and publisher's b/w lettered+illustrated name and colophon to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with matt black background and 5 critics' white+light khaki lettered reviews: 2 for 'The Witches' and a further 3 for 'Cleopatra: A Life' by same author.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top edges with very slight toning and minimal blemish,fore-edges brighter but also with minimal blemish to its bottom edges; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips – appears unread, apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp and clean/unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt capitalised lettering to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xivpp+3-496pp [paginated] includes Contents list/table,6pp of Cast of characters,I-XII (12) chapters,16pp contemporary sepia,b/w facsimile illustration reproductions,colour painting portraits and colour photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp146/47 and pp338/39 respectively,Acknowledgements, Notes,2pp Selected Bibliography,and an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,and to the rear 2pp blanks. Visually the exterior appearance is more than acceptable and particularly internally,is in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its near 10 year-old age.It is only the minimal,minor faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading overall.Despite that,it really is still an exemplary example for its cleanliness, brightness and lack of detracting faults.   It began in 1692,over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece started to scream and convulse.It ended less than a year later, but not before nineteen men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony.Neighbours accused neighbours, parents accused children, husbands accused wives, children accused their parents, and siblings each other.      Vividly capturing the dark, unsettled atmosphere of seventeenth-century America, Stacy Schiff's magisterial history draws us into this anxious time.She shows us how a band of adolescent girls brought the nascent colony to its knees, and how quickly the epidemic of accusations,trials, and executions span out of control.Above all, Schiff's astonishing research reveals details and complexity that few other historians have seen.Every detail of colonial life just decades after the first landing - family, farming, praying, housekeeping, dangers of life at wilderness's edge, estrangement from England, the pressures of a life dominated by Biblical thought - is rendered with a clarity that makes almost inconceivable events comprehensible.                      As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, as magnificently written as it is deeply researched,'THE WITCHES' breathes new life into one of history's most enduring mysteries.   Please contact seller,because of the weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!                                  N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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