- Seller Inventory #: 5502
- Format: Hardcover; 1st Printing
- Book condition: F/F
- Edition: 1st Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 051712422X
- ISBN 13: 9780517124222
- Publisher: Gramercy Books
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1955
- Keywords: 051712422X, John M. Taylor, Witchcraft, Witches, Persecution, Religion, Occult, Salem Witch Trials
New York: Gramercy Books. F/F. 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover; 1st Printing. 43, 49, 52. 051712422X . 1st edition/1st printing. Sub-title: The Story of the Witchcraft Persecutions in Seventeenth-Century New England, Including Original Trial Transcripts. Fine book (clean, straight & tight) in a fine, unclipped dust jacket (clean, bright & crisp). From the 1660's to 1690's there were ongoing witch hunts and trials in the colonies of Connecticut and New Haven. The most notorious episode of persecution occured in 1692 in Salem where 20 persons were executed as witches. These are some of those stories, including trial transcripts. ; 8.5 x 5.5 inches; 164 pages .