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A.E. WAITE: MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS.
Wellingborough: Crucible, 1987. First edition, 8vo., pp. 208, light grey hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations; foxing to edges of text block, a few spots to first few pages but margins of the rest of the text unaffected, very light yellowing to margins of pages, else a very good copy in very good unclipped dust-jacket, lightly rubbed, a few marks to front and rear.
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A TRUE AND FAMOUS RELATION OF WHAT PASSED FOR MANY YEARS BETWEEN DR. JOHN DEE (A MATHEMATICIAN OF GREAT FAME IN Q. ELIZABETH AND KING JAMES THEIR REIGNES) AND SOME SPIRITS: Tending (had it Succeeded) To a General Alteration of Most States and Kingdomes in the World. His Private Conferences with Rodolphe, Emperor of Germany, Stephen K. of Poland, and divers other Princes about it. The Particulars of his Cause, as it was agitated in the Emperor’s Court; By the Pope’s Intervention: His Banishment, and Restoration in Part. As Also, the Letters of Sundry Great Men and Princes to the said D. Dee. Out of The Original Copy, written with Dr. Dees own Hand: Kept in the Library of Sir Tho. Cotton, Kt. Baronet.
Glasgow: The Antonine Publishing Co. Ltd./Portmeirion: The Golden Dragon Press. Limited edition, number 83 of 1000 copies, signed by publisher and printer, folio, pp.unpaginated Preface,448,46, two-tone grey and white cloth with leather labels to spine, gilt, b/w plates; light tobacco odour, light toning to edges and prelims, a very good copy indeed, with limitation bookplate to rear paste-down endpaper, in partially toned dust-jacket, chipped along upper edge of rear panel, and otherwise very good. Housed in patterned card slipcase, with wear to cloth at lower edge, and light wear to corners.
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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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CELTIC MYTH AND LEGEND: Poetry and Romance.
London: The Gresham Publishing Company, 1914. 8vo., pp.xiv,450, highly ornamented decorative green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., colour frontispiece with guard leaf, three further colour plates and 20 monochrome plates; ink ownership autograph, dated 1914, to front free endpaper, foxing to prelims and edges, rubbing and slight wear to extremities, darkening and mottling to fore-margins of boards, with crease and stain to rear board, overall a very good copy indeed of this attractive and richly designed edition.
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DER MAGUS. Seine Ursprunge und Seine Geschichte in Versciedenen Kulturen.
Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001. Large 8vo., pp.vi,263, red hardcover, lettered in yellow, b/w illustrations; light bruise to headband, else near-fine, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket, which has tiny closed tear to rear lower edge, and slight rubbing to extremities. German-language.
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DID SPACEMEN COLONISE THE EARTH?
London: Pelham Books, 1974. 8vo., pp.260, blue hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece, 23 b/w plates; very slight toning to endpapers, very light rubbing to boards, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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DRAGONS AND DRAGON LORE
New York: Payson & Clarke Ltd, 1928. 8vo., pp. xii,203, hardcover, quarter bound in black cloth with contrasting marbled paper boards, 20 b/w illustrations; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light staining to front free endpaper where red colouring of the top edge has leached, also affecting margins of several pages, light damp staining to title page, plates and endpapers, two lines of very light scoring where pencil underlining has been rubbed out to a few pages, boards rubbed, sunned to spine, lettering faded, light wear to corners, overall a good+ copy.
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E.S.P.: Beyond Time and Distance.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965. First edition, 8vo., pp.x,148, black hardcover, gilt, with 21 b/w illustrations to text; lightly toned, with a few light spots of foxing to endpapers, else very good indeed, very good unclipped dust-jacket with some light surface soil and marks.
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EARLY IRISH HISTORY AND MYTHOLOGY.
Dublin: The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1976. 8vo., pp.x,568, black hardcover, gilt; a near-fine copy, no dust-jacket.
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EXPERIENCE OF THE INNER WORLDS. A Course in Christian Qabalistic Magic.
Helios, 1975. First edition, 8vo., pp.xii,254, green hardcover, gilt; light marking to endpapers, foxing to top edges, light splash-marks to fore-edges, light sunning to upper edges of boards, a very good+ copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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FABLES AND PROVERBS FROM THE SANSKRIT BEING THE HITOPADESA
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1885. First edition. 8vo., pp.277, hardcover; toned, a few spots of foxing to prelims, rubbed to boards, some light surface soil, else a good+ copy.
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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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HERMETICA. The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings which Contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings Ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus.
Bath: Solos Press, 1993. Reprint, 8vo., pp.255, blue hardcover, gilt; a very good copy indeed, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket with light partial sunning.
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INHERITING POWER. The Story of an Exorcist.
University of Chicago Press, 1988. 8vo., pp.xviii,209, paperback; a very good, fresh copy, with light curling to wrappers.
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IRISH KINGS AND HIGH-KINGS.
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001. 8vo.,pp. xlvii,341, paperback, b/w illustrations and maps; light creasing to extremities, two price labels to front and rear, otherwise a very good copy.
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LÉGENDES BOURGUIGNONNES RÉCITS HISTORIQUES ET LÉGENDAIRES. Raoul de Mont-Saint-Jean - Philippe Pot - Petites Légendes. Troisième Édition.
Tours: Alfred Mame et Fils, Éditeurs, 1879. Third edition, 8vo., pp.237, quarter bound in red morocco, four raised bands, gilt, textured red cloth, a.e.g., engraved frontispiece with tissue guard, textured endpapers; prize bookplate, dated 1879, to front paste-down endpaper, paper-cracking between front endpapers, foxing to prelims, with light toning and a little light foxing throughout, rubbing and light wear to extremities, a good+ copy.
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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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