1914 The Witch by Mary Johnston – First Edition – SOLD

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The Witch by Mary Johnston.  Published in 1914, Boston / New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.  First edition (first printing), with date on title page matching copyright date.

Nice shelf décor with brown cloth, gilt titling.  Full seam split between title page and frontispiece.  All 442 pages present and secure to the hinge.  Pen inscription to front free endpaper. All other pages are mark free.

 

Synopsis from Goodreads: 

Around the time of the death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603 England, witch scares and hunts broke out among the superstitious just as they did later in that century in Salem, Massachusetts.
Gilbert Aderhold was a doctor and Joan Heron was a woman living alone in Hawthorn Village where Aderhold finally began practicing medicine. The story in England was the same as in the United States as single women, old women living alone and people who didn’t conform to society’s norms were thought to be witches.
There were all types of signs for the country people to look for to identify those who were in league with Satan. The results of these hunts and a dash of jealousy send Joan and Gilbert on a long journey to escape the false accusations. How they manage and the results of their journeys are the basis of this Johnston story.

 

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