Item #62364 Recovering the Ancient Magic. Max Freedom LONG.
Recovering the Ancient Magic.
Recovering the Ancient Magic.

Recovering the Ancient Magic.

London: Rider & Co., 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 288pp. Original red cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, b&w frontis and illustrations. Max Freedom Long (1890 – 1971) was an American New Age author who wrote a number of well-regarded works on metaphysics and "Huna", said by him to be a secret religious and healing science of ancient Polynesia. This is the first edition of one of Long's first books in which he details his 18 years of study of Polynesian magical and healing practices. It appears much more grounded in the authentic traditions than his later works. Many interesting contemporary photographic plates. Cloth a bit rubbed and spot faded, spine and little darkened and lightly creased, spine ends and corners bruised and chafed, page edges a little discoloured, top edge darkened and dusty, light spot discolouration to endpapers, small split to endpapers at lower edge of front inner hinge, rear endpapers split at inner hinge but hinges solid, overall a tight, clean VG copy (no dust jacket). Scarce in first edition. Item #62364

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