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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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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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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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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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WOGGHEEGUY.
Australian Aboriginal Legends.
Adelaide: F.W. Preece and Sons. First edition, pp,xi,98, quarter black cloth with printed paper title label, pictorial paper-covered boards, b/w frontispiece plus 7 further b/w plates, in-text illustrations, pictorial endpapers; foxing to leaves adjacent to plates (including title), light foxing to edges, else very good indeed, in very good price-clipped dust-jacket, which is just lightly chipped to head of spine, with toning to spine, and is now in a protective cover. An attractive 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 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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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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THE WILD RUE.
A Study of Muhammadan Magic and Folklore in Iran.
London: Luzac and Co. First edition, 8vo., pp.216, brown cloth lettered in dark green, 6 b/w plates (including frontispiece); light partial foxing to free endpapers, small area of sunning to head and foot of spine, light rubbing to extremities, with rubbing to upper margin of front board, in patches, and staining to upper corner of rear board for apx.4x3cms, internally fresh and very good, a good(+) copy overall, in price-clipped dust-jacket, which has chipping to extremities, with light loss at head and foot of spine, two small closed tears with light creasing to margins, good+, and now in protective cover.
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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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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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LÉGENDES BOURGUIGNONNES RÉCITS HISTORIQUES ET LÉGENDAIRES. Raoul de Mont-Saint-Jean - Philippe Pot - Petites Légendes. Troisième Édition.
Tours: Alfred Mame et Fils, Éditeurs, 1879. Third edition, 8vo., pp.237, quarter bound in red morocco, four raised bands, gilt, textured red cloth, a.e.g., engraved frontispiece with tissue guard, textured endpapers; prize bookplate, dated 1879, to front paste-down endpaper, paper-cracking between front endpapers, foxing to prelims, with light toning and a little light foxing throughout, rubbing and light wear to extremities, a good+ copy.
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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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VOX SPIRITUS. Or, Sir Walter Rawleigh`s Ghost.
The Rota, University of Exeter. Facsimile reprint, 8vo., pp.(4),32, printed wrappers; small knock + light creasing to wrapper at head of spine, an o/w fine copy.
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PATRAÑAS; OR SPANISH STORIES LEGENDARY AND TRADITIONAL.
London: Griffith and Farran. First edition, 8vo., pp.vii, 376 + 32 adverts, b/w illustrations throughout, decorative stamped green cloth, gilt; two small holes to front pastedown and marks from removal of bookplate?, small chip to front pastedown, tiny patch of wear to both head and tail of spine, overall a very good bright 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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