Richmond Vista, CA: Three Hands Press, 2013. First Edition, limited. Hardcover. Octavo. 186pp. Fine purple cloth with gilt titling to spine and device to upper board, black endpapers. Title page and in-text illustrations, bibliography. Hardcover edition limited to 250 copies. In this third volume in a projected four book series..... More
Richmond Vista, CA: Three Hands Press, 2009. First Edition, limited. Hardcover. Octavo. 182pp. Deep navy cloth with gilt titing to spine and device to upper board. Black endpapers. Title page llustration, bibliography. Deluxe hardcover of an edition limited to 300 hand numbered copies. The first in what was to be..... More
Richmond Vista, CA: Three Hands Press, 2010. First Edition, limited. Hardcover. Octavo. 224pp. Fine maroon cloth with gilt titling to spine and device to upper board. Brown endpapers. Title page and in-text illustrations, bibliography. Deluxe hardcover edition, a limited edition of 250 copies. In this second volume of a projected..... More
Middlesex England etc: Penguin, 1965. Reprint. Softcover. Pocket sized. viii + 220 pp. Illustrated wrappers, b&w illustrations, biblio and index. An reprint of this interesting if tendentious history. It was supposedly written in response to what he perceived as misrepresentations of 'the craft' in this book that Gerald Gardner published..... More
New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. Large octavo. xii + 392pp. Original navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine, appendix. Reprinted from the 1936 Harvard edition, this is Volume II (of III) of this early history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony which included much of what is now..... More
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv + 262pp. Illustrated papered boards, b&w illustrations, index. A volume from the 'Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic' series. From the publisher: "'Physical Evidence for Ritual Acts, Sorcery and Witchcraft in Christian Britain' investigates the physical evidence for magic in..... More
Palermo, Sicily: Tipografia Lo Statuto, 1901. Softcover, 4to, 130 pp + 4 pp of illustrations, ITALIAN text. Original printed wrappers, in-text illustrations. Fragile wrappers lightly worn and chipped at extremities, some uneven browning to covers, paper lightly browned. Sound, text clean, many unopened pages, appears unread. Very good condition. Scarce..... More
Leeds, England: The Society for Folk Life Studies, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo. 116 pp. + x (plates). illustrated wrappers; b&w illustrations. Contributions include: The Antrobus Soulcaking Play: An Alternative Approach to the Mummers' Play by Susan Pattison; Merched y Gerddi: A Seasonal Migration of Female Labour from rural Wales..... More
USA: Bookvika Publishing, ND. POD. Softcover. Quarto 76pp. Glossy wrappers, A4 sized, POD production quality. A collection of articles that are all occult related but appear to be somewhat randomly selected - and which have been taken (verbatim) from Wikipedia and published as a group. Contents - among others -..... More
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi + 206pp. Colour illustrated papered boards, bibliography and index, maps. From the 'Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic' series. From the publisher: "This book offers the first attempt to compare lay and inquisitorial witchcraft prosecutions. In most of the early..... More
New York: Encounter/Open Court, 1967. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo. Periodical; 96 pp. b&w illustration. Contains a 22 page historical essay by British author & historian H.R. Trevor-Roper (1914 – 2003) entitled "Witches and Witchcraft". Cover rubbed with edges slightly darkened and discolored; corners creased and rubbed, owner's name in pen..... More
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NP [ South Carolina ]: Nephilim Press, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. x + 152pp. Red spine with black lettering and illustration, black & grey faux snakeskin boards with red device to upper boards. Illustrated endpapers, b&w illustrations, ribbon marker. This edition is limited to 500 hand numbered copies. A...... More
NP [ The Netherlands ]: Aeon Sophia Press, 2013. Deluxe Limited edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 240pp + colour plate at rear. Deep brown textured full leather with gilt publisher and embellishment to spine, and gilt sigil on upper board, marbled endpapers, colour and b&w illustrations, ribbon marker. The Deluxe edition limited..... More
![Sabbatica, the Seas of Death and the Arcana of Deathbringer [ Volume I ]. Edgar - KERVAL,...](/pictures/thumb/67607.jpg?v=1615309146)
NP [ South Carolina ]: Nephilim Press, 2013. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi + 206pp. Brown papered boards, upper board illustrated with an image of the “Deathbringer”, black endpapers, b&w frontis and illustrations include works by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule. "Sabbatica" was issued in an edition of 500 hand numbered copies..... More
United States: Transmutation Publishing, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. vi + 208pp. Full black leather illustrated and titled on front board in metallic crimson, with raised bands to spine, thick black endpages, silk page marker. Edition limited to "69 [hand numbered] editions in Blood Offering Crimson finish" (there were also..... More
NP [ Finland ]: Ixaxaar Occult Literature, 2009. Second Impression. Hardcover. Octavo. 176 pages. Black cloth, elaborate griffin illustration to upper board, silver titling to spine, silver Ouroborus on rear cover, black endpapers, appendix & bibliography, index. The second printing of this volume, - the first edition was published in..... More
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NP (South Carolina): Nephilim Press, 2012. Special Reserve Edition [ Deluxe Edition ]. Hardcover. Octavo. 184pp. Bound in FULL BLACK LEATHER with gilt lettering to spine and gilt sigil on upper board. Smyth sewn, black endpapers, ribbon marker. Printed in red and black, b&w sigils throughout. This SPECIAL RESERVE EDITION..... More
Schwerte/Ruhr: Hubert Freistühler, 1966. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. Text in GERMAN. 608pp. Original red cloth with black rules and titling to upper board, black titling to spine, b&w illustrations. An extensive account of persecution of suspected witches in Europe in the Middle Ages, including the processes used to extract confessions, implements..... More
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1973. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. viii + 382pp. Original brown cloth lettered in black on spine. Pictorial endpapers. B/w illustrations. Index. An important collection of materials and documents on the history of witchcraft, many published for the first time in English. From..... More
NP [ US ]: By Author, 2009. First Edition [ POD ]. Hardcover. Large octavo. 240pp. Navy cloth, b&w illustrations. The first edition of this privately published work by the author, a student of the work of Anton Lavey. This copy inscribed and signed by the author opposite the title..... More
NP [ US ]: By Author, 2010. First Edition [ POD ]. Hardcover. Octavo. 222pp. Navy cloth, with gilt titling to spine, b&w illustrations. The first edition of this privately published work by the author who is a student of Anton Lavey. Of his work the author says "'The Esoteric..... More
London: Skeffington & Sons Ltd., ND [ 1945 ]. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 128pp. Original red cloth with gilt titling to spine and upper board, b&w frontis and illustrations, index. The writer's aim is ..."to trace the idea of Satan from its source onwards; to consider its many developments and..... More
New York: Encounter/Open Court, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo. 96 pp. Periodical. illustrated in b&w. Includes an 18 page article entitled "Was there ever a Society of Witches?" Norman Cohn's study of "Myths and hoaxes of European Demonology (1)." Ex-library copy with ink stamp on front cover; edges a little..... More
West Nyack, NY: Parker Publishing Company, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 194pp. Charcoal cloth with white titling to spine, notes and bibliography. Lurid and sensational, the publisher says: "A Shocking Report on the growing power and influence of Witches and Satan-Worshippers in contemporary [1970s] America." The actual contents is..... More
Los Angeles, CA: Feral House, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 262pp, xxii page b&w photo insert at center, iv pp adverts. Original black cloth with red title, etc. to spine, facsimile of Lavey's signature in red gilt to upper board, b&w illustrations, bibliography. A sympathetic biography of the founder of..... More
