London: Duckworth, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 192pp. Blue-grey cloth with black titling etc. to spine. An about VG copy (lacks dust jacket). A genuinely rare humorous novel in which an English society lady employs a local witch to work a spell on her house guests. The witch has many..... More
Paris: Antoine Dezallier, 1697. Second Edition, Revised and Greatly Enlarged. Hardcover. Two volumes. Small octavos. French text. (xxxii) 532pp & (xxviii) 520pp. Modern full leather with gilt rules and embellishments to boards and spine, raised bands and gilt titling to spine, marbled page edges, fresh endpapers.The 'Traité des superstitions selon..... More
Oxford: Mandrake of Oxford, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover, Octavo. 476pp. Blue cloth, gilt titling to spine. Stated first edition. The third volume of Oate's "Star Crossed Serpent" series, this devoted to the letters and other writings of Robert Cochrane. POD production style. A bright, clean about-Fine copy in near-Fine dust..... More
London: Tavistock Publications, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxxviii + 388pp. Original black cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, notes, indexes, maps. "This volume brings together eighteen contributions by social anthropologists and historians dealing with witchcraft in the historical past and in the present." Light bumping and rubbing to..... More
Oxford: Berg, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover, Octavo. x + 236pp. Illustrated paper-covered boards. From the publisher: "Anthropology's long and complex relationship to magic has been strongly influenced by western science and notions of rationality. This book takes a refreshing new look at modern magic as practised by contemporary Pagans in..... More
NP [ London ]: Printed by T. G. Norris & Son, ND [ circa 1954 ]. Softcover. Octavo. 32pp. Stapled printed wrappers. The first separate publication: apparently an off-print from the Transactions of Metropolitan College of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (SRIA). In a previous paper the author examined witch..... More
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Melbourne, Australia: Argus & Australasian Ltd., 1955. First Edition. Softcover. Large quarto. Magazine format. 48pp. Illustrated stapled wrappers. B/w & some color illustrations. Includes an anonymous 3-page illustrated article, continuing a series of articles in consecutive issues entitled "The Devil is on Our Doorstep," a sensational expose of accounts of..... More
York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1992. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. 156pp. Glossy printed wrapper. B&w illustrations, reading list, index. A 1992 reprint of the 1985 first US edition of this work by Patricia Crowther (b. 1927), a leading figure in modern British witchcraft. Crowther was initiated into witchcraft by Gerald..... More
