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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 FOOL: His Social and Literary History.
London: Faber and Faber, 1935. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xv,374, red cloth, b/w frontispiece and plates; very good indeed, in very slightly chipped price-clipped dust-jacket.
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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 MAGICAL RECORD OF THE BEAST 666, The Diaries of Aleister Crowley, 1914-1920. [Comprises: Rex de Arte Regia; The Magical Record of the Beast; Liber Al vel Legis (The Book of the Law).]
London: Duckworth & Co Ltd, 1972. First edition, 8vo., pp.xv,326, red cloth, gilt; lightly toned to edges, slight rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in a price-clipped dust jacket, which has has 4.5cm closed tear and two further 3cm closed tears to front upper margin, 4cm largely closed tear to rear upper margin, further small tears and chipping to edges, and small scuff to spine, with archival tape repairs to reverse of upper margins, and now in a protective cover.
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THE VERMILION BIRD: T’ang Images of the South.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. 8vo.,pp. viii,380, paperback; slight creasing to lower edge, a very good copy.
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TRACES OF THE ELDER FAITHS OF IRELAND: A FOLKLORE SKETCH.
A Handbook of Irish Pre-Christian Traditions.
London: Longmans, Green and Co. First edition, two volumes, 8vo., pp.xx,405:xvi,438, uncut, textured blue cloth, gilt, b/w frontispieces and 192 further b/w plates and figures; ownership inkstamp and gift inscription to front free endpaper verso of volume I, ownership name stamp to half titles of both volumes, light foxing to prelims, rubbing to extremities, with small nicks to cloth at headbands, a very good set of this scarce work.
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TROUBLESOME CORPES: Vampires & Revenants From Antiquity to the Present.
Southend-on-Sea: Desert Island Books, 2007. 8vo.,pp. 320, hardcover, silver lettering; a fine copy, in a fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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WOGGHEEGUY. Australian Aboriginal Legends.
Adelaide: F.W. Preece and Sons. First edition, pp,xi,98, quarter black cloth with printed paper title label, pictorial paper-covered boards, b/w frontispiece plus 7 further b/w plates, in-text illustrations, pictorial endpapers; foxing to leaves adjacent to plates (including title), light foxing to edges, else very good indeed, in very good price-clipped dust-jacket, which is just lightly chipped to head of spine, with toning to spine, and is now in a protective cover. An attractive copy.
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