A Hornbook for Witches
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1950.
First edition, first printing. A presentation copy signed by Leah Bodine Drake on the front free endpaper and warmly inscribed in the year of publication, "To Mary Margaret Calvert / my friend and fellow poet - / Affectionately, Leah. 1950" Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with light edge wear, faint soiling to cloth. Offsetting to gutters from binder's glue, stray ink marks to front and rear pastedowns, uneven toning and paperclip indentation marks to top corners of pages, light toning to contents. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with color retouching to spine ends and joints with corresponding bleeding to verso, toning and light edge wear, joints reinforced with Japanese paper at verso. A hard to find Arkham House imprint of supernatural poems; scarce signed. Joshi 43. Item #140947498
Price: $5,800