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THE MAGICAL RECORD OF THE BEAST 666, The Diaries of Aleister Crowley, 1914-1920. [Comprises: Rex de Arte Regia; The Magical Record of the Beast; Liber Al vel Legis (The Book of the Law).]
London: Duckworth & Co Ltd, 1972. First edition, 8vo., pp.xv,326, red cloth, gilt; lightly toned to edges, slight rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in a price-clipped dust jacket, which has has 4.5cm closed tear and two further 3cm closed tears to front upper margin, 4cm largely closed tear to rear upper margin, further small tears and chipping to edges, and small scuff to spine, with archival tape repairs to reverse of upper margins, and now in a protective cover.
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THE FOOL: His Social and Literary History.
London: Faber and Faber, 1935. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xv,374, red cloth, b/w frontispiece and plates; very good indeed, in very slightly chipped price-clipped dust-jacket.
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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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ALCHEMICAL IMAGERY.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 8vo., paperback, pp. xxii,249, b/w illustrations; small ownership plate to half title, else very good indeed.
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A.E. WAITE: A Bibliography.
Wellingborough: The Aquarian Press, 1983. 8vo., pp.192, black hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece and 2 further b/w plates; a very good, clean copy, 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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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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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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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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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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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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TROUBLESOME CORPES: Vampires & Revenants From Antiquity to the Present.
Southend-on-Sea: Desert Island Books, 2007. 8vo.,pp. 320, hardcover, silver lettering; a fine copy, in a fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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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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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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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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THE FOOL AND THE TRICKSTER.
Studies in Honour of Enid Welsford.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer. First edition, 8vo., pp.(vi),142, brown hardcover lettered in silver, b/w plates; light foxing to top edges, slight mustiness, else very good indeed, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly toned to spine and with a light marking to pale paper, else very good.
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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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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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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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TOLD IN THE MARKET PLACE.
Forty Tales.
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1954. First edition, 8vo., pp.207, brown cloth; slight mustiness, light sunning to spine, else very good, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed and worn to edges, with loss to rear upper margin and head of spine.
More details Price: £68.00