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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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