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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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CURIOUS MYTHS OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
London: Rivingtons, 1866. Two volumes, first & second series, both first editions, 8vo.,pp. 241; 374, burgundy cloth, gilt lettering to spines and gilt emblem to front boards, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; ink stamp to frontispiece verso of vol I, light foxing to margins, slight damp staining to endpapers of vol.II, webbing slightly visible to inner hinge, all contents firm, light sunning to spines, rubbed to extremities with light wear to foot of spines and along cloth of joints, otherwise very good.
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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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GEORGE OF LYDDA: The Patron Saint of England.
A study of the Cultus of St. George in Ethiopia. Translations of the Ethiopic texts as found in the manuscripts from Makdalâ now in the British Museum and an introduction.
London: Luzac and Co, 1930. First edition thus, limited to 250 copies, 8vo., pp.xviii,284, 13 b/w plates and 5 illustrations in the text, pictorial cloth, gilt, uncut; slightly sunned o/w a very 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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JAPANESE ARTS AND THE TEA CEREMONY.
The Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art, Volume 15.
New York/Tokyo: Weatherhill/Heibonsha, 1974. First English edition, large 8vo., pp.186, decorative cloth, gilt, numerous colour plates with tissue guards, b/w plates (200 illustrations in all); light spotting to top edges, else very good indeed, in very good price-clipped dust-jacket, which has bookseller’s sticker to rear.
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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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PATRAÑAS; OR SPANISH STORIES LEGENDARY AND TRADITIONAL.
London: Griffith and Farran. First edition, 8vo., pp.vii, 376 + 32 adverts, b/w illustrations throughout, decorative stamped green cloth, gilt; two small holes to front pastedown and marks from removal of bookplate?, small chip to front pastedown, tiny patch of wear to both head and tail of spine, overall a very good bright copy.
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SERIES B. REPRINTED GLOSSARIES.
I. North of England Words; From ‘A Tour to the Caves,’ by J.H.; 1871. II. Provincialisms of East Yorkshire; by Mr. Marshall; 1788. III. Provincialisms of East Norfolk; by Mr. Marshall; 1787. IV. Provincialisms of the Vale of Gloucester; by Mr. Marshall; 1789. V. Provincialisms of the Midland Counties; by Mr. Marshall; 1790. VI. Provincialisms of West Devonshire; by Mr. Marshall; 1796. VII. A Glossary of Words Used in the West Riding of Yorkshire; by Dr. Willan; 1811.
London: published for The English Dialect Society by N. Trubner & Co. 8vo., pp.vi,111, half publisher’s navy blue leather, gilt, textured blue cloth boards, red speckled edges; free endpapers toned, slight bowing to boards, rubbing to extremities, with wear to leather at lower corner of front board, light scuffs to leather, internally a clean, fresh copy, which is overall very good.
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SIR LANCELOT OF THE LAKE: A FRENCH PROSE ROMANCE OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.
Translated from MS in the Biblioteque Nationale ( Fonds Francais, 344) with an Introduction and Notes.
London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd, 1929. First edition, 8vo.,pp.xx,420, dark blue-grey cloth, gilt, frontispiece, b/w plates throughout; slight offsetting/foxing to endpapers, a very good copy in a a good dust-jacket but with rubbing to extremities, one centimetre missing from top and bottom of the spine, price clipped.
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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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SPELLBOUND.
Studies on Mesmerism and Literature.
Princeton University Press. 8vo., pp.xvi,293, black cloth, gilt, 10 b/w illustrations; top edges foxed, else very good, in price-clipped dust-jacket, which has just slight creasing to extremities, else vg and now in a protective cover.
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SPIDER WOMAN.
A Story of Navajo Weavers and Chanters.
New York: Macmillan Company. 8vo., pp.xi,287, cream cloth, b/w plates; light surface soil to cloth, light foxing to edges, a very good copy.
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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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