Mercy Short : A Winter Journal, North Boston, 1692-1693 by Farber, Norma - 1982

Penguin Publishing Group, 1982. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Dutton Juvenile. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Dutton Juvenile. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Fine.

New York: A Unicorn Book. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0525440143 . DJ spine was bumped, resulting in a 1cm. Tear. .

NY: E.P. Dutton, 1982. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak. 139 pages. Record # 371793

NY: E.P. Dutton, 1982. 2nd pr.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak. 139 pages. Record # 371794

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.

A Unicorn Book/E.P. Dutton, 1982. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Sturdy book, blue covers, dark lettering very fine on spine, 138 pages plus a postscript with quotations from Cotton Mather. Ink name and address at top of first front end paper, DJ glossy beneath mylar, tan spine and borders to front and back, a color-illustration of Puritan girl writing with a design of feather, a skull and creatures sitting at top front. Very Fine DJ/Fine book.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1982. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Faint spotting on the endpapers else fine in a near fine dust jacket with foxing.