Peace, My Daughters

New York: Crown Publishers, 1949. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); brown cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorative elements stamped in silver on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; 248pp. Trivial surface wear, with light finger-soil to covers, previous owner's name pencilled to front endpaper, and previous bookplate remnants on rear pastedown; Good. Dustwrapper unclipped (priced $3.00) with modest shelfwear, chips to spine ends, 2" closed tear to front flap, nick to rear flap, with tiny creases and tears to extremities; Good. Barker's first novel, focusing on the Salem witch trials. [83801].