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First UK edition. The book is in very good condition for its age. Minor bump to base of book spine and a scratch down the centre of the front board. The dustjacket is price clipped and the text on the inside flap is quite pale. Minor foxing to leading edges of pages not affecting text. “When Cass discovers the descriptions of seventeenth-century withcraft practices, she begins to wonder about her life at The Croft in the isolated Northumberland village to which she and her widowed husband Arthur – a man much older than herself – have retired. She is puzzled by the traces of Arthur’s first wife Ester, who kept minutely detailed notebooks on the witchfinder and his searches, and on the history of The Croft; by the garden of poisonous plants which Esther cultivated and which the (merely eccentric?) neighbours now guard so zealously; and especially by the peculiar adoration inspired among them by the saturnine local doctor John Stearne…” IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH