Experimental Magic.
New York, NY: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1973. Second Impression. Hardcover. Octavo. 126pp. Original beige cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, b/w illustrations by Helen Brennan and Brendan P. Carey, top edge brown. An interesting and entertaining work by James Herbert Brennan (b. 1940), a professional author who has written a number of books on magic and the occult. He is said to have got his early magical training with the Fraternity of the Inner Light, and later to have become an associate of Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki and the Servants of the Light. The work is divided into two sections: "Low Magic" and "High Magic"and ranges from Oijua boards, ghost divining, and sleight of hand, to the assumption of Godforms and the performance of advanced ritual. This edition was a joint publication by Aquarian Press whose name is on the title page, and Samuel Weiser, Inc. whose logo is on both the spine of the book and the dust jacket. Spine ends lightly bruised, page edges a bit darkened and dusty, fore-edges of endpapers evenly browned, pages lightly toned, one inch chip torn from lower corner of page 65/66, but no loss of text. Overall a tight, clean better-than VG copy in VG+ dust jacket (Dust jacket is a bit darkened, rubbed and lightly chipped at all edges and extremities, price-clipped). Item #62559
ISBN: 0877281645
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