THE DAY OF ST. ANTHONY’S FIRE
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Macmillan, New York, 1968, BCE. Hard cover, 309 pages including Index. Blue boards with gold lettering on spine. Bit of edge, corner and spine end wear; a few small spots on boards. Binding sound with head and tail bands. Deckled fore-edge; outer page blocked sunned. Dust jacket shows edge and cover wear, small losses and tears; old water mark at lower spine end. Illustrated endpapers; interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages. ‘This is the strange, true, yet almost incredible story of a small French village where in 1951 hundreds of respectable townspeople went totally mad on a single night. … Piece by piece, the story behind the tragedy in Pont-St.-Esprit … unfolded to the doctors, the gendarmerie, and the toxicologists.’ (from front flap)
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