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A NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FREEMASONRY:
(Ars Magna Latomorum), and of Cognate Instituted Mysteries: Their Rites, Literature and History.
London: Rider & Co, 1921. New, revised edition, two volumes, 8vo., pp.xxxi,458;488, blue cloth, gilt, heraldic emblem in gilt to front boards, titles in red and black, 16 b/w plates including frontispieces, further b/w in-text illustrations; ex libris the Museum and Library of the Provincial Grand Lodge of West Yorkshire, with pale inkstamp to endpapers of both volumes, light rubbing to extremities, small split to cloth at headband of Volume I, a bright and otherwise near-fine set.
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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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DIGGING FOR DRACULA.
Dublin: Dracula Transylvannian Club, 1997. Limited edition, of 1000 copies, 8vo.,pp. 211, paperback, in a cased box; author’s presentation copy with inscription to title page, a near-fine copy, in a very good cased box with rubbing to extremities and slightly coming unstuck at inner hinge.
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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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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 FOOL AND THE TRICKSTER.
Studies in Honour of Enid Welsford.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer. First edition, 8vo., pp.(vi),142, brown hardcover lettered in silver, b/w plates; light foxing to top edges, slight mustiness, else very good indeed, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly toned to spine and with a light marking to pale paper, else very good.
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THE FOOL: His Social and Literary History.
London: Faber and Faber, 1935. First edition, 8vo., pp.xv,374, uncut, marbled cloth boards, pictorial spine stamped in gilt and black, b/w frontispiece and plates; sunning and light rubbing to spine, else clean and very good.
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THE GHOSTS OF YORK.
York: The Yorkshire Gazette, 1899. 12mo., pp.41, printed, stapled wrappers; foxing to edges, wrappers fragile - largely torn along fold for spine, with further closed tears and small areas of loss, contents clean, a good copy of this scarce pamphlet.
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THE LIBRARY EDITION OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS, ILLUSTRATED. [Set of Twelve Volumes]
London: H.S. Nichols Ltd, 1897. Limited Library edition, one of 570 sets, and one of only a few sets issued in the publisher’s full morocco bindings, set of twelve volumes, full brown bevelled morocco with lavishly decorated boards in gilt, gilt decorations to spine, five raised bands, inner dentelles gilt, t.e.g., patterned endpapers, b/w frontispiece portrait to first volume, b/w plates with caption-sheets; neat ink ownership autograph to front paste-down endpaper and to front free endpaper verso, light wear to leather at extremities, a very good set.
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THE PEAT-FIRE FLAME:
Folk-Tales and Traditions of the Highlands and Islands.
Edinburgh: The Moray Press, 1937. First edition, 8vo, pp.xix,339, blue cloth, gilt, 32 b/w photographic plates; foxing/toning to fore-edges (with just occasional foxing to margins), rubbing to extremities, spine lightly dulled, a good++ copy. No dust-jacket.
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