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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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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 ENYCLOPEDIA OF FAIRIES. Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, and Other Supernatural Creatures.
New York: Pantheon, 1976. First American edition, 8vo., pp.xiii,481, black cloth, gilt, b/w plates; a good, clean copy, in chipped and lightly edgeworn unclipped 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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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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CHRISTIANITY AND MYTHOLOGY.
London: Watts & Co, 1936. Second impression of the second edition, revised and expanded, 8vo.,pp. xxiii,472, light blue cloth, black lettering to spine; toned and foxing to endpapers and to edges of text block, toned to margins, rubbed and lightly sunned to spine and extremities, with small light stains to spine and light damp staining to for-edges of boards, otherwise a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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CULTS & LEGENDS OF ANCIENT IRAN & CHINA.
Bombay: M. J. Karani, 1936. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 308, green cloth, gilt, b/w plate with tissue guard to frontispiece; small ownership label to rear paste down endpaper with number penned in red ink to upper margin of front and rear paste down endpapers, toned and lightly foxed to edges of text block, endpapers and lightly toned to margins, rubbed to spine and extremities of boards, with slight curling to corners of boards and light thinning of the cloth to head and foot of spine, otherwise a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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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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DEUTSCHE MYTHOLOGIE. Vollstandige Ausgabe.
Wiesbaden: Marix Verlag, 2007. 8vo., pp.1385, green hardcover, gilt; a fresh and near-fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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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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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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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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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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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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