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Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
by Rivka Galchen
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374280460
- ISBN 13
- 9780374280468
- Seller
-
Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line starting with 1. Signed by Rivka Galchen in silver ink on the title page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Light creases to spine ends. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($27.00) with a hint of rubbing, else Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 275 pages. 5½ x 8½" tall.
The story begins in 1618, in the German duchy of Württemberg. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years' War has begun, and fear and suspicion are rampant throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the small town of Leonberg, Katharina Kepler is accused of being a witch.
Katharina is an illiterate widow, known by her neighbors for her herbal remedies and the success of her children, including her eldest, Johannes, who is the Imperial Mathematician and renowned author of the laws of planetary motion. Many are jealous of Katharina, and it doesn't help that she is out and about and in everyone's business.
Drawing on actual historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire "Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch" is both provocative and entertaining.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3620
- Title
- Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
- Author
- Rivka Galchen
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374280460
- ISBN 13
- 9780374280468
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2021
- Pages
- 275
- Size
- 5.5 x 8.5
- Keywords
- supernatural, witches, fantasy, germany
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Signed Books;
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Armadillo Alley Books
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Carrollton, Texas
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