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MERCY SHORT: A Winter Journal, North Boston 1692-93.
by Farber, Norma
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good dust jacket (prev owner's name / gift inscription, price-clipped)/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0525440143
- ISBN 13
- 9780525440147
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Dutton,, (1982). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (prev owner's name / gift inscription, price-clipped). First printing. A 17 year-old former indentured servant, Mercy Short is urged by Cotton Mather to write a diary, which tells of her capture by Indians after the massacre of her family and her ransom by other settlers. Set at the time of the Salem witch trials, the captivity was an experience which led her to believe she was bewitched. Based in part on Cotton Mather's own account of Mercy Short.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85189
- Title
- MERCY SHORT: A Winter Journal, North Boston 1692-93.
- Author
- Farber, Norma
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket (prev owner's name / gift inscription, price-clipped)
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0525440143
- ISBN 13
- 9780525440147
- Publisher
- Dutton,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1982)
- Keywords
- historical fiction, witch trials, cotton mather,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Young adult books;
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