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Leiber, Fritz
CONJURE WIFE
book-date: 1953
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GRADING: 		Award Books
1974
4th
Paperback
Jeff Jones
.95
Good+ or better
ex-ChUSFA: stamp on first inside page, page 85. MORE INFO

Award Books (#AN1143) fourth printing December 1974 paperback (copyright 1953.) Cover by Jeff Jones, 188 pages, 95 cent cover price. Condition is Good+ or better: tight and almost square with flat spine; noticeable overall wear (before it was taped/reinforced with 2" non-yellowing library tape on spine & sides.) Age tanning is mild and uniform - average for its age. Stamp on first page and page 85 - no other marks or writing.

Conjure Wife is the classic tale which explores the idea that "all women are witches." Norman Saylor is a college professor, quite unaware that career advancement depends upon magical conflict between the faculty wives- all witches. When he learns of this- being a non-believer- he makes his wife abandon this superstion... thus removing all of his (and her) protections. After he is stalked by a cement dragon, and his wife has her soul stolen, Norman is forced to believe - and do something about it.

Shorter? magazine version (with same title) in Unknown Worlds April 1943. This version first appeared in the "Twayne Triplet" Witches Three in 1952. The first book appearance was a paperback from Lion Books in 1953.