München & Leipzig: K. G. Saur, 2001. Zweite, verbesserte Auflage. Hardcover. Large octavo. xxii + 722pp. Blue cloth boards, gilt titling to spine. Black and white photographic plates. GERMAN LANGUAGE. The author, Reinhold Merkelbach (1918-2006) was a German classical philologist and epigraphist who specialised in the ancient history of religion..... More
United Kingdom: Mike Howard, 2007 / 2008. First Edition. Softcover. 2 issues. Quartos. Approx. 40 & 44pp. Stapled pictorial wrappers. B/w illustrations. An unusually well-written and interesting magazine of contemporary witchcraft in Britain. Includes articles on Dorothy Clutterbuck, The Beast of St Lytham, etc. as well as various rituals, including..... More
London: Studio Vista, 1965. First English edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 192 pp. Red cloth with gilt titling to spine; chronology; bibliography, b&w illustrations. Very light rubbing to edges. Otherwise, a tight and bright Near Fine copy in VG+ dust jacket. (Dust jacket a little rubbed with a one half inch..... More
New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1969. First US Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 206 pp. Burgundy cloth with white titling to spine; blind stamped Incan mask; frontis; b&w illustrations; chronology; bibliography. Published previously, entitled, "The Incas". Small red publisher's stamp on lower page edge. Otherwise, a tight and bright Near Fine copy..... More
New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1977. Softcover. 8vo. 96 pp. Bibliography, index, b&w illustrations, maps. Crease on rear cover; pages a little browned; owner's name on inside cover. Otherwise, a tight and clean VG copy. More
Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. xx + 294 pp. Black cloth with gilt titling to spine; index, bibliography; b&w illustrations. Overall, a tight and bright Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. (Dust jacket not price clipped.). More
New York, NY: Benjamin Blom Inc., 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. vi + 316 pp. Purple publisher's cloth with gilt and red titling to spine. Overall, a tight and bright Near Fine copy. No dust jacket. More
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. xxii + 388 pp. Orange cloth with black and gilt titling to spine; index, bibliography, b&w illustrations; Spanish and English text. Very light bumping to spine ends. Overall, a tight and bright VG+ copy in VG dust jacket..... More
London: Verso, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii + 310 pp. Red cloth with white titling to spine; profiles. Review letter loosely inserted in front pages. Overall, a tight and bright Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. (Dust jacket not price clipped.). More
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1963. First Edition. Softcover. 4to. Text in French. xxxii + 598pp. Original printed wrappers, bibliography, indexes. An important and scarce study of the religion and cosmology of Ancient Iran, with specific reference to some of the historical problems concerning Zoroastrianism and the worship of Mazda..... More
South Pasedena, CA: P.D. and Ione Perkins, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo, 192 pp. Decorated blue cloth, gilt title and author to spine and front cover, b&w frontis and illustrations, list of illustrations, index. Edges rubbed, corners and spine ends bumped and a bit chafed, bookstore stamp to front endpaper..... More
London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co. Ltd., nd (circa 1930). Hardcover. Large 8vo. x + 212 pp. Red cloth with gilt titling to spine; black titling to upper board; blind stamped horizontal rules to spine and upper board. Corners and spine ends slightly bumped. Uneven browning to front and rear..... More
New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1978. First US Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. 208pp. Periwinkle blue cloth with gilt titling to spine; frontis, b&w illustrations, index, bibliography. Following works such Gerald S. Hawkins' "Stonehenge Decoded", and Peter Tompkins' "The Secrets of the Great Pyramids" - author, Morrison takes up the..... More
Philadelphia, PA: David McKay, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi + 294pp. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine & front board. Fold-out color frontispiece. B/w & color illustrations. Bottom of spine rubbed, top of spine bumped, spine cloth mottled and discolored, top-edge dusty, endpapers lightly browned, fold-out frontispiece a...... More
Adelaide, Australia: Rigby Limited, 1969. Reprint. Hardcover. sm.4to, 80 pp. Decorated green cloth. Titling to spine. Well illustrated in color by Ainslie Roberts. Just a hint of rubbing to lower edges, otherwise Fine condition in mylar protected Fine dust jacket. More
New York, NY: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan Inc., 1982. Hardcover , small quarto, 62 pp, illustrated boards, pictoral front and end papers, very good + condition, minor wear to boards (no dust jacket.). More
London: Trubner & Co., 1890. Third Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xx + 532pp. Original cloth lettered in gilt on spine, gilt design on front board. Stand-alone volume. Index. The work of John Muir (1810 -1882), a Scottish Sanskrit scholar and Indologist, is his five volume study of the most important source..... More
London: Trubner & Co., 1873. Second edition revised. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv + 524pp. Original cloth lettered in gilt on spine, gilt design on front board. Index. The work of John Muir (1810 -1882), a Scottish Sanskrit scholar and Indologist, is his five volume study of the most important source texts..... More
London: R. Royston, 1683 & 1682. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Small octavo. Two volumes in one, each with separate title page. [xii] + 308pp. + [xvi] + 128pp. Later full leather binding with gilt lettering & rules on spine. Fresh endpapers. Two books in on volume, each separately paginated and..... More
London: Norroena Society, 1907. Memorial Edition. Hardcover. Three volume set (complete). Large octavos. Consecutively paginated: Volume I: xii + 352pp. Volume II: xi - 353pp- 706pp and Volume III: xii + 707pp-1058pp. Superb gilt decorated green cloth bindings with gilt titling to spines. Coloured half title pages and frontispieces with..... More
San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins, 1994. Hardcover, 8vo, xxiv+193pp. Yellow cloth spine with with brown papered boards, gilt titling, color plates, b/w ills, notes. Part of the Sacred Literature Series. Fifteen Stories from the Warlpiri Elders of Central Australia, recorded and translated for the first time. Just a hint of shelf..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. 182pp. Bibliography & index. From the cover: "The renowned tale of Amor and Psyche, from Apuleius's second-century Latin novel The Golden Ass, is one of the most charming fragments of classical literature. Neumann chose it as the exemplar of an unusual..... More
Boston and New York: American Folk-Lore Society by Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892. First edition. Softcover. Wrappers. Tall 8vo. (10" x 6.5" ) 176-264pp. Original wrappers. The journal of the American Folk-Lore Society. Essays in this issue include: Reminiscences of Pennsylvanian Folklore. The Folklore of Straw. The Na-Avv-Nai-Ya: A Tusayan..... More
Boston and New York: American Folk-Lore Society by Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893. First edition. Softcover. Wrappers. Tall 8vo. (10" x 6.5" ) 97-192pp. Original wrappers. The journal of the American Folk-Lore Society. Essays in this issue include: Uncle Remus traced to the Old World. Demoniacal Possession in Angola, Africa..... More
New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo. 176 pp. Green cloth with bright pink titling to spine; notes, bibliography, index. Very light rubbing to spine ends. Otherwise, a tight and bright Near Fine copy in VG+ dust jacket. (Dust jacket slightly rubbed with a few small creases along..... More
