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A.E. WAITE: A Bibliography.
Wellingborough: The Aquarian Press, 1983. 8vo., pp.192, black hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece and 2 further b/w plates; a very good, clean copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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ALCHEMICAL IMAGERY.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 8vo., paperback, pp. xxii,249, b/w illustrations; small ownership plate to half title, else very good indeed.
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ALEISTER CROWLEY: The Nature Of The Beast.
Wellingborough: The Aquarian Press, 1987. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 174, yellow hardcover, gilt; toned to margins, light foxing to endpapers and to edges of text block, otherwise very good, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine and light foxing to edges.
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APPARITIONS; OR, THE MYSTERY OF GHOSTS, HOBGOBLINS, AND HAUNTED HOUSES, DEVELOPED. Being a Collection of Entertaining Stories, Founded on Fact,
And selected for the purpose of eradicating those fears, which the ignorant, the weak, and the superstitious, are but too apt to encourage, for want of properly examining into the causes of such absurd impositions.
London: Lackington, Allen, & Co, 1902. 12mo., pp.242,(ii) half bound, rebacked in textured brown cloth with gilt title, paper-covered boards, engraved frontispiece and title; cloth reinforcement to inner hinges, engraved bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, neat ink ownership autograph, dated 1902, to front free endpaper, chip to fore-edge of p.57, corner crease to frontispiece and title, some foxing and surface soil within, surface wear to boards, corners worn, a good+ copy.
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BODY MAGIC.
An encyclopaedia of esoteric man.
Frogmore: Granada Publishing, 1979. 8vo., pp.478, paperback; slight toning to margins, leaves working loose in a couple of places, ownership bookplate sticker to front free endpaper, crease to spine, light rubbing to edges of wrappers, internally clean and otherwise very good.
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FINN AND HIS COMPANIONS.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. 12mo., pp.xvi,182,8(adverts), decorative cloth, with matching endpapers and edges, b/w frontispiece with tissue guard, further b/w plates, decorative b/w headpieces, pictorial half title; foxing to prelims, spine lightly rolled, sunning to spine, with light wear at head- and tailbands, internally fresh, a good+ copy.
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GREAT THAMES MYSTERIES.
London: Selwyn and Blount (1928) Ltd. First edition, 8vo., pp.288, cloth, gilt, 8 b/w plates; edges foxed, occasional foxing to margins of text throughout, light foxing, a very good copy. (No dust-jacket).
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LES MABINOGION DU LIVRE ROUGE DE HERGEST AVEC LES VARIANTES DU LIVRE BLANC DE RHYDDERCH.
Traduits du gallios avec une introduction, un commentaire explicatif et des notes critiques par J. Loth.
Paris: Fontemoing. Second edition, ‘edition entierement revue, corigee et augmentee’, 2 volumes, royal 8vo., pp.436; 478, title page in red and black, original printed wrappers at rear, attractively bound in green library buckram with morocco label to spines, a fine set.
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LETTERS ON DEMONOLOGY AND WITCHCRAFT:
Morley’s Universal Library.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1884. 8vo., pp.320, blue cloth with lettering and decorations in black; small abraded area to upper margin of title (tear and small area of loss, presumably to remove a small ownership inscription), foxing to prelims, superficial paper-cracking to inner hinges, rubbing to extremities, a little light marking to cloth, a near-very good copy.
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MAGIC AND THE DIVINATION IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
Texts and Techniques in the Islamic and Christian Worlds.
Aldershot: Ashgate Variorum, 2001. 8vo.,pp. xii, 370; turquoise hardcover, gilt, b/w figures and tables; a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket.
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MEMOIRS OF BARTHOLOMEW FAIR.
London: Hugh Evelyn, 1973. Facsimile reprint of the 1859 edition, 8vo., pp.viii(Foreword),xx,506, red cloth, gilt, pictorial title and numerous b/w illustrations within; light crease to upper corner of front free endpaper, a fresh copy, very good indeed. No dust-jacket.
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NALA & DAMAYANTI.
London: A.M. Philpot, 1926. Edition limited to 1000 copies for England and America, of which this is No.416, 8vo.,pp. xi,207, gold coloured boards, vellum spine, gilt lettering to spine, colour plates and colour frontispiece; light off setting to endpapers, rubbing to extremities, lightly worn at corners, light foxing to spine, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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SNORRI STURLUSON.
Boston: Twayne Publishers, A Division of G.K. Hall & Co, 1978. 8vo., pp.188, green cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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SWORD DANCE AND DRAMA
London: Merlin Press, 1962. First edition, 8vo., pp.222, red cloth lettered in silver, b/w frontispiece, b/w plates, folding map at rear of volume; light rubbing to extremities, slight mustiness, a very good copy, in lightly edge-worn pictorial dust-jacket.
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TALES FROM ETERNITY.
The World of Faerie and the Spiritual Search.
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1973. First edition, 8vo., pp.191, hardcover lettered in silver; a very good, clean copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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TAYTAY’S TALES:
Folk-Lore of the Pueblo Indians.
London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd, 1923. First UK edition, 8vo., pp.xiii,213, pictorial yellow cloth stamped and lettered in green, colour frontispiece and 7 further colour plates, b/w in-text illustrations; foxing to edges and endpapers, undulation to fore-margin of front free endpaper, a very good, bright copy of this scarce title.
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THE ARCH-CONJUROR OF ENGLAND: JOHN DEE
Yale University Press, 2011. First edition, 8vo., pp.335, hardcover, gilt; a very good copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE BLOODY COUNTESS.
The Atrocities of Erzsebet Bathory.
SunVision Press, 2012. 8vo., pp. 154, paperback, b/w frontispiece; ownership plate to half-title, otherwise a near-fine copy.
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THE COMPLETE SAGAS OF ICELANDERS. Including 49 Tales. [Set of Five Volumes in Slipcase]
Reykjavik: Leifur Eiriksson Publishing. First edition, 5 volumes, 8vo., pp.lv,402;466;472;472;448, navy faux-morocco cloth, gilt; very slight marking to rear boards of Volumes I, III, and V, overall a fine, fresh set, in near-fine matching slipcase.
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THE FLAMING DOOR,
A Preliminary Study of the Mission of the Celtic Folk-Soul by means of Legends and Myth.
London: Rider & Co, 1936. First edition, 8vo., pp.64,288,7(adverts), red cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, further b/w plates; a very good copy in lightly worn and marked dust-jacket, which has small area of loss to spine.
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