Perth, Australia: Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover, tall 4to, 136pp. Maps, well illustrated in color, glossary, bibliography, Artist index. Minor chafing to corners of dust jacket; all else fine condition. A lovely copy. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991. Third Edition Revised. Hardcover, Small quarto, xiv + 96 (+ 18 full page color plates). Original blue cloth with decoration in blind to front board and gilt title and author to spine. Maud Oakes was an artist and self-trained anthropologist, who became the first..... More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxvi + 110 pp. Grey cloth with black titling to spine; index, b&w illustrations. Spine ends, edges, corners and cloth lightly rubbed; edges slightly darkened. Owner's name on front free end paper; remains of front dust jacket loosely inserted;..... More
Los Angeles, CA: Commercial Printing House, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 278pp. Maroon cloth lettered in gilt on spine and upper board, gilt embellishment to upper board, b&w illustrations. The first edition of this work of occult fiction: "A story of India and Tibet, revolving around a magic necklace which..... More
New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1948. Hardcover. 8vo. 254 pp. Red cloth with gilt titling to spine and upper board; illustrated with more than 275 black and colored drawings by the author. Edges and corners very lightly rubbed; page edges slightly darkened; early and later pages lightly foxed..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. x + 306pp. Cloth. Bibliography & index. A tight clean near Fine copy in VG+ dust jacket (Dust jacket spine slightly faded). More
France: Éditions Du Seuil, 1958. Softcover. Small octavo. FRENCH text, 178pp, xiipp. Illustrated wrappers, b&w illustrations, chronology. A study of the Knights Templar by Albert Ollivier (1915-1964), a French historian, author, journalist, politician and former member of the French resistance. Covers a bit rubbed, darkened and discoloured. Lacking front endpaper..... More
New York, NY: T. Fisher Unwin, 1907. Hardcover. Large 8vo. xvi + 342 pp. Maroon cloth with gilt titling and decoration to spine and upper board; frontis, b&w illustrations by William Campbell Oman; top edge gilt. Studies of Goddess-Worship in Bengal, Caste, Brahmaism and Social Reform, with descriptive Sketches of..... More
New York / London: Taplinger Publishing Co. & Robert Hale & Co., 1975. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 192pp. Dark brown cloth lettered with silver lettering to spine. B/w illustrations. Bibliography & index. The author is firmly in the camp that believe that witches were wise women, offering healing and..... More
Rockford, IL: Tan Books and Publishers Inc., 1973. Softcover. 8vo. 160 pp. Original wrappers; index. A book about Angels. Wrappers lightly rubbed, book label on rear wrapper; a few small creases and tears along edges. Otherwise, a solid and clean VG copy. More
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1980. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi + 408 pp. Beige cloth with black titling to spine; b&w illustrations; bibliography, index. Overall, a tight and bright Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. (Small half inch tear and crease on top edge; not price clipped.)... More
London, England: Luzac & Company Ltd., 1910, 1914, 1914. First Editions. Hardcover. Octavos. Three volumes, complete. Volume I (1910): viii +396pp; Volume II (1914): viii + 466pp.; and Volume III (1914), viii + 480pp. Original burgundy cloth, gilt titling to spine, blind borders and titling to upper cover of Volume..... More
New York, NY: Hispanic Institute, 1959. First Edition Thus. Softcover. 8vo. 166 pp. Original printed wrappers, with selected bibliography and index. The first study of its kind, this work is a condensation, with additional examples, of a doctoral dissertation submitted at the University of Chicago in 1947. Wrappers lightly rubbed..... More
San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989. Revised Edition. Softcover. Octavo. xxviii + 210pp. Edges foxed, a few small marks to front cover, otherwise a tight, clean VG+ copy. More
np. np. [c.1972]. First Edition. Softcover. Small octavo. 188pp. B/w illustrations. Bibliography. Spine chipped, creased & faded, small piece missing from top of spine, page edges browned, else a solid Good+ copy. More
Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1979, 1980. First Edition. Hardcovers. Large ovtavos. Two volumes. xviii + 410 pp. & xxx + 130 pp. Olive green cloth with brown titling to spine and upper boards; small illustration in lower corner of front cloth; frontis; bibliography, index; appendix. Overall..... More
Dehiwala: Tisara Prakasakayo, 1973. reprint. Softcover, 8vo, xi+142pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Bibliography, index, b/w plates and text illustrations. The Ceylon Historical Journal Volume Twenty. Originally published in Archiv Orientalni Volume II, Prague, 1930. Small chip from foot of front wrapper and dustwrapper, slight creases to spine and front wrapper, otherwise..... More
London: Methuen & Co., 1895. First edition. Hardcover, two volumes, small 8vo, 146pp+ 32pp adverts & 146pp + 32pp of adverts. Original blue cloth with gilt titles and authors to spine, gilt device on upper boards, frontispieces, b&w illustrations by Tristram Ellis, index. Cloth darkened at edges, boards chafed and..... More
New York, NY: Bollingen Foundation / Pantheon Books, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (approx. 12.5 x 9.5 inches) xxii + 150 pp + 64 B/W plates. Original two toned beige/brown cloth covered boards with gilt titling, etc. to spine. Frontispiece with tissue guard, b&w illustrations and plates (some with tissue..... More
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1925. Hardcover. 8vo. 244 pp. + x (np) advertisements. Green cloth with blue titling to spine; blue titling and rule to upper board; blue emblem to rear board. Spine slightly darkened; spine ends and corners bumped and rubbed; page edges slightly browned; owner's details and inscription..... More
London: T. Richards, 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Ocatvo. viii + 64pp. Original blind stamped blue cloth, gilt title to spine, gilt device to upper board, illustrated in b&w. A rather conversial study of the inscriptions on ancient British coinage. Neatly rebacked with original spine laid over, original boards, fresh endpapers..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi] + 126pp. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine. A collection of essays from the Sarum Lectures (1971) delivered at Oxford University where Price was a professor of Logic from 1935-1959. From the collection of Dr. M. H. Coleman, with..... More
London: The Greater World Association, 1946. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto. 48pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Illustrations printed in black, green & purple. Wrappers slightly discolored, creased & rubbed, short bottom-edge tear to back cover, else a solid, internally-clean near-Vg copy. More
New York, NY: Peter Bedrick Books, 1990. First US Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 208 pp. Quarter red cloth w/ black papered boards, blue title, etc. to spine, title page vignette, b&w illustrations, bibliography. A collection of accounts of witchcraft, drawn from a wide variety of sources from the narratives of the..... More
New York, NY: Pantheon Books Inc., 1953. Hardcover. 8vo. xiv + 346 pp. Quarter black cloth with blue cloth boards; gilt titling to spine and publisher's emblem in gilt to upper board; notes. Edges a little rubbed; light water stain to fore edge; owner's name on front free end paper;..... More
