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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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ADVENTURES IN LEGEND. Being the last historic legends of the western highlands.
Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co, 1898. First edition, 8vo., pp. xvi, 340, 32 (publisher’s adverts), uncut, pictorial navy cloth, gilt, pictorial spine in gilt, b/w frontispiece with tissue guard, b/w plates; ink ownership gift inscription, dated 1959, to front free endpaper, toning to prelims, a few very occasional light spots of foxing, spine sunned, gilt still bright, small bruise to fore-edge of lower board, a very good copy.
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AN INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH RUNES.
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1999. Second edition, 8vo.,pp. xv,249, hardcover, gilt, b/w figures; light dusting to upper edge of text block, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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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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BRANWEN, DAUGHTER OF LLYR. A Study of the Irish Affinities and of the Composition of the Second Branch of the Mabinogi.
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1958. First edition, 8vo., pp.xi,199, hardcover, gilt; toning to endpapers, ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a few spots of foxing to edges of text block, else a very good copy, in good unclipped dust-jacket. toned and foxed, sunned to spine.
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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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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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ENGLISH RITUAL DRAMA: A Geographical Index.
London: The Folk-Lore Society, 1967. 8vo.,pp. 132, brown cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; toning to margins and endpapers, otherwise a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities with some soil marking to front upper margin, 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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FOLKLORE OF PREHISTORIC SITES IN BRITAIN.
London: David & Charles, 1976. 8vo., pp. 320, red hardcover, gilt, b/w plates; ink ownership autograph to front free endpaper, small previous bookseller sticker to front paste-down, pencil annotations and underlining throughout, lower margin and tail band sunned, a good+ copy in a unclipped vg dust-jacket, sunned to spine, a few marks, lightly rubbed to extremities.
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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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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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MERLIN AND THE GRAIL: Joseph Of Arimathea, Merlin, Perceval. The Trilogy of Prose Romances Attributed to Robert De Boron.
Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 2001. 8vo., pp.172, hardcover, gilt; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, otherwise a very good, clean copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has a small closed tear to front lower margin and light creasing along upper margin.
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MYTHS OF THE NORSEMEN. From the Eddas and the Sagas.
London: George G. Harrap and Company, 1908. First edition, 8vo., pp.xvi,397,(i), uncut, pictorial green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, pictorial spine, t.e.g., b/w frontispiece and plates; marking to p.207 and margin of adjacent plate, light partial toning to endpapers, foxing to prelims, edges and margins throughout, rubbing and light creasing to extremities, paper-cracking to rear inner hinge (joint fine), a very good, rather bright copy.
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