Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine, crisp dust jacket. Hardcover. Illustrated endpapers. 498 pp. with bibliography, index. From the Pulitzer Prize-einning author of "Cleopatra", a riviting account of a seminal episode in American history and a primal mystery unveiled. In the early winter of 1692, a minister's niece began to writhe and roar due to unkown causes. Word of the incident quickly spread, confounding the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Soon, neighbors accused neighbors, husbands accused wives, parents and children one another. It ended less than a year later but not before nineteen men and women had been hanged and one man crushed to death. Schiff draws masterfully on archives to present a picture of the strains of Puritan life on an adolescent girl whose fits and convulsions first triggered the events as well as on the Massachusetts Bay authorities whose delicate agengas were at risk.

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Bookseller: The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: E26683x
Title: The Witches: Salem, 1692
Author: Stacy Schiff
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition
ISBN 10: 0316200603
ISBN 13: 9780316200608
Publisher: Little, Brown & Co
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 2015
Keywords: witches, witchcraft, massachusetts, cotton mather, persecution, hysteria, colonial,

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The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).

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