Witches Three. Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber. There Shall Be No Darkness by James Blish. The Blue Star by Fletcher Pratt. Introduction by John Ciardi

Fletcher
Pratt

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Pratt
Fletcher
Witches Three. Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber. There Shall Be No Darkness by James Blish. The Blue Star by Fletcher Pratt. Introduction by John Ciardi
423 pp
8vo
New York
Twayne Publishers
1952
First edition, Currey state A
Black cloth titled in gilt. Very good in very good minus dust jacket (Some wear to head of spine panel, soiling to back panel and flaps)
Currey pp 307, 410-411
310769

First publication of The Blue Star, Fletcher Pratt’s fine novel of revolution, political intrigue, and the perils of the use of magic, and first book publication of Fritz Leiber’s Conjure Wife, a “classic account of witchcraft in academia … the magic still works: his and its” (Tom Disch, 1983).