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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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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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SORCERY.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. First edition, 8vo., pp.232, black hardcover, gilt, a fine copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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SPECULUM MENTIS; Or The Map of Knowledge.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1963. 8vo.,pp.327, navy cloth, gilt; light pencilling, light toning and foxing to edges of text block and endpapers, rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very good copy, in a good price-clipped dust-jacket, which is toned to spine, with some loss to head and foot of spine and corners. Now in a protective cover.
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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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TALES FROM ETERNITY.
The World of Faerie and the Spiritual Search.
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1973. First edition, 8vo., pp.191, hardcover lettered in silver; a very good, clean copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE BATTLE GOD OF THE VIKINGS. The First G. N. Garmonsway Memorial Lecture, delivered 29 October 1971 in the University of York. University of York Medieval Monograph Series.
York: William Sessions Ltd, 1972. 8vo., pp.33, paperback (stapled wrappers), b/w frontispiece, 14 b/w plates; very light shelf-wear, a near fine copy.
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THE DEVIL:
A Mask Without a Face.
Reaktion Books. 8vo., pp.208, red hardcover lettered in black, b/w illustrations and colour plates; clean and very good indeed, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE FLAMING DOOR, A Preliminary Study of the Mission of the Celtic Folk-Soul by means of Legends and Myth.
London: Rider & Co, 1936. First edition, 8vo., pp.64,288,7(adverts), red cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, further b/w plates; a very good copy in lightly worn and marked dust-jacket, which has small area of loss to spine.
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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 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 GOLDEN DAWN.
An Account of the Teachings, Rites and Ceremonies of the Order of the Golden Dawn.
St. Paul, Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications. Reprint of the fourth, revised and enlarged edition, complete in one volume, 8vo., pp.227,300,276,368, pictorial boards, b/w and colour illustrations; a very good, clean copy, with some rubbing to extremities. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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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 MABINOGION, From the Llyfr Coch o Hergest [Red Book of Hergest], and other Ancient Welsh Manuscripts, With an English Translation and Notes. [Set of Three Volumes]
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans/Llandovery: W. Rees, 1849. Three volumes, royal 8vo., pp.xxiii,412;vi,444;iii,400, half blue morocco, five raised bands, gilt, with gilt decoration to compartments, marbled boards and endpapers, t.e.g., b/w frontispiece, b/w plates; foxing to prelims and ultimate leaves, occasional foxing within, spines uniformly discoloured to dark green, a bright and near-fine set.
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THE MAGICAL REVIVAL.
London: Skoob Books, 1991. First edition thus, with corrections, 8vo., pp.244, black hardcover, silver lettering, b/w illustrations; toning to edges of text block and lightly to margins, light foxing to upper edge of text block, otherwise a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.
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THE NEW REVELATION.
London: Hodder and Stoughton. First edition, 12mo., pp.170, black cloth, gilt; offsetting to endpapers, toning to page margins, light rubbing to extremities, a very good bright copy.
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THE RAMAYANA.
A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1973. First edition, 8vo., pp.xv,171, purple hardcover, gilt, pictorial endpapers, pictorial headpieces to chapters; slight mustiness, an otherwise very good, clean copy, in vg price-clipped dust-jacket, which is lightly toned to pale paper.
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THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE O.T.O.
London: The C. W. Daniel Company. First edition, 8vo., pp.240, grey hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece; overlaid stickers to lower margin of rear paste-down endpaper, a couple of slight bruises to extremities of boards, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed and with one small nick to head of spine - now in a protective cover.
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THE TRIUMPH OF THE MOON.
A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft.
Oxford University Press, 1999. First edition, 8vo., pp.,xv,486, black hardcover, gilt; a very good copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket in clear protective cover.
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