Item #58707 The Rebirth of Magic. Francis KING, Isabel Sutherland.

The Rebirth of Magic.

London: Corgi Books, 1982. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Pocket sized paperback. 217pp + vipp adverts. List of further reading, endnotes, b&w illustrations. From the publishers: "In 'The Rebirth of Magic' Francis King and Isabel Sutherland look at the most famous - and infamous - magicians of the past 400 years: Dr. John Lamb, Eliphas Levi, MacGregor Mathers, W.B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, Dion Fortune. They trace the lives of the magicians and examine their beliefs, their organizations, their magical weapons and theri rituals. And they try to determine which were outrageous frauds - and which were perhaps genuine. " The first and only edition of this book. The author Francis X. King (1934–1994) was a British popular historian of the occult, whose books played an important part in the renewal of interest in Western Magical traditions that began to flower in the early 1970s. Covers rubbed and lightly creased, pages browned (as would be common) Covers a little rubbed, pages toned. Still overall a tight, clean VG+ copy. Item #58707
ISBN: 055211880X

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