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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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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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SPACESHIPS IN PREHISTORY.
Secaucus, N.J: University Books, Inc, 1976. 8vo., pp.379, navy cloth, silver lettered, b/w illustrations; small bruise to upper edge of front board, a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed and lightly chipped to extremities.
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MYSTERY ANIMALS OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
London: Robert Hale, 1986. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 224, hardcover, silver lettering, b/w illustrations; toned and foxed to edges of text block, with light foxing to endpapers and margins, spine slightly rolled, with light toning to extremities, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities, with creased tears to head and foot of spine and to upper corners, light sunning to spine and extremities, overall a very good copy, now in a protective plastic dust-jacket covering.
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THE GREEN STONE.
Jersey: Neville Spearman, 1983. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xv,224, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; toned to edges of text block and to margins throughout, light toning to edges of boards, otherwise a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities with light wear to corners and creasing to head and foot of spine and extremities, with light soiling and a price label to rear.
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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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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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THE SECRET OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER: A Chinese Book of Life.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962. 8vo.,pp. xvi,149, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; toned and foxed to edges of text block, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed and toned to extremities, overall very good.
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YEATS'S GOLDEN DAWN.
London: Macmillan Press, 1974. First edition, 8vo., pp.322, black hardcover, gilt; boards lightly dampstained, otherwise very good, in a very good price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities.
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THE PRIVATE DIARY OF DR. JOHN DEE,
And the Catalogue of his Library of Manuscripts in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and Trinity College Library, Cambridge.
London: printed for the Camden Society by John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1842. First edition, small 4to., pp.viii,102,35 (Camden Society Members List and notes), uncut, decoratively blindstamped brown cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt; light toning to margins, wear at headband, with bruising to corners and lower edge of front board, light marking to cloth, a very good copy of this scarce volume.
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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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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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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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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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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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POTTS’ DISCOVERY OF WITCHES IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER. [Remains Historical and Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Vol. VI.]
New York/London: The Chetham Society, Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1968. Reprint from the 1613 original, 8vo., pp.lxxix(introduction),main body of text unpaginated,51(notes),unpaginated list of Chetham Society’s members, red hardcover, gilt; very light foxing to endpapers and fore-edge of text block, text block coming away from lower spine, lightly rubbed, a few marks to boards, larger stain to lower margin of rear board, overall a very good copy.
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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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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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TOPSELL’S HISTORIES OF BEASTS.
Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1981. 8vo., pp.xiii,185, brown hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; foxing to upper edge of text block, rubbing to extremities of boards, otherwise very good, in a good+ unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed and toned to spine and extremities, adhesive stain to front where label has been removed, small areas of loss to head and foot of spine and to corners.
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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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