Description
The Macmillan Company, Published 1962. Hardcover, 190 pp.; 19 cm; First American Edition.
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Condition & notes
In Good condition with an Acceptable dust jacket. Orange paper-covered boards with a robin device blind-stamped on the front cover and black lettering on the spine. Mild to moderate shelf wear with some soiling and scuffing to edges and spine, binding tight. Pages moderately toned, otherwise unmarked. Illustrated jacket, designed by The Strimbans, depicts a red-haired woman beside a witch's gravestone. A 2-inch tear to the top corner of the front panel and several nicks and tears of an inch or less, increasing toward the edges; top corner price-clipped. Moderate toning and shelf wear with some soiling and spotting, heavier foxing to the verso. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover.Gothic romantic suspense set in the West Country village of Meadway Bois, where the shadow of Abigail Parkes, burned as a witch in 1640, still hangs over the community when young writer Tamar Brown arrives to gather material for her new book. First published in London by Hodder and Stoughton in 1961, where it won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award. By the British novelist Ursula Torday, who wrote as both Paula Allardyce and Charity Blackstock.