A Hornbook for Witches

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name = A Hornbook for Witches
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image_caption = Jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel for "A Hornbook for Witches"
author = Leah Bodine Drake
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cover_artist = Frank Utpatel
country = United States
language = English
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genre = poetry
publisher = Arkham House
release_date = 1950
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 70 pp
isbn = NA
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"A Hornbook for Witches" is a collection of poems by Leah Bodine Drake. It was released in 1950 and was the author's first book and her only collection published by Arkham House. It was released in an edition of 553 copies of which 300 were given to the author making this one of the rarest books published by Arkham House.

Contents

"A Hornbook for Witches" contains the following poems:

# "A Hornbook for Witches"
# "Unhappy Ending"
# "Witches on the Heath"
# "The Tenants"
# "The Ballad of the Jabberwock"
# "Bad Company"
# "Mouse Heaven"
# "Rabbit-Dance"
# "Wood-wife"
# "A Likely Story"
# "The Man Who Married a Swan Maiden"
# "All-Saints Eve"
# "The Last Faun"
# "Changeling"
# "In the Shadows"
# "Figures in a Nightmare"
# "The Witch Walks in Her Garden"
# "The Seal-Woman's Daughter"
# "They Run Again"
# "The Path Through the Marsh"
# "Old Wives' Tale"
# "A Vase from Araby"
# "The Fur Coat"
# "House Accurst"
# "The Vision"
# "Sea-Shell"
# "Willow Women"
# "The Girl in the Glass"
# "Heard on the Roof at Midnight"
# "Terror by Night"
# "Legend"
# "The Heads on Easter Island"
# "Haunted Hour"
# "Goat Song"
# "The Nixie's Pool"
# "Stranger"
# "Encounter in Broceliande"
# "The Window on the Stair"
# "The Old World of Green"
# "Curious Story"
# "The Steps in the Field"
# "Midsummer Night"
# "Old Daphne"
# "Mad Woman's Song"
# "Griffin's Gold"
# "Black Peacock"
# "The Centaurs"

References

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