NARAYAN, R.K. (Suggested by the Tamil Version of Kamban).

The Ramayana. A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1973. First edition, 8vo., pp.xv,171, purple hardcover, gilt, pictorial endpapers, pictorial headpieces to chapters; slight mustiness, an otherwise very good, clean copy, in vg price-clipped dust-jacket, which is lightly toned to pale paper.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Literature; Epic

PARRY, Glyn

The Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee

Yale University Press, 2011. First edition, 8vo., pp.335, hardcover, gilt; a very good copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.

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PATON, Lucy Allen.

Sir Lancelot of the Lake: A French Prose Romance of the Thirteenth Century. Translated from Ms in the Biblioteque Nationale ( Fonds Francais, 344) with an Introduction and Notes.

London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1929. First edition, 8vo.,pp.xx,420, dark blue-grey cloth, gilt, frontispiece, b/w plates throughout; slight offsetting/foxing to endpapers, a very good copy in a a good dust-jacket but with rubbing to extremities, one centimetre missing from top and bottom of the spine, price clipped.

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REICHARD, Gladys A.

Spider Woman. A Story of Navajo Weavers and Chanters.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1934. 8vo., pp.xi,287, cream cloth, b/w plates; light surface soil to cloth, light foxing to edges, a very good copy.

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O’GRADY, Standish. Illustrated by J.B. Yeats. [Jack B. Yeats]

Finn and His Companions.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. 12mo., pp.xvi,182,8(adverts), decorative cloth, with matching endpapers and edges, b/w frontispiece with tissue guard, further b/w plates, decorative b/w headpieces, pictorial half title; foxing to prelims, spine lightly rolled, sunning to spine, with light wear at head- and tailbands, internally fresh, a good+ copy.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Myths & Legends; Illustrated

O’DONNELL, Elliott.

Great Thames Mysteries.

London: Selwyn and Blount (1928) Ltd., (1929). First edition, 8vo., pp.288, cloth, gilt, 8 b/w plates; edges foxed, occasional foxing to margins of text throughout, light foxing, a very good copy. (No dust-jacket).

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Translated and set down by: CAMPBELL, C.G.

Told in the Market Place. Forty Tales.

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1954. First edition, 8vo., pp.207, brown cloth; slight mustiness, light sunning to spine, else very good, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed and worn to edges, with loss to rear upper margin and head of spine.

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SWINEY, Frances.

The Ancient Road, or the Development of the Soul.

London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1918. First edition, 8vo., pp.ix,504,(vi), textured green cloth, gilt, colour frontispiece, 6 further colour plates and 10 diagrams; partial paper-cracking to inner hinges (boards remain firm), with sellotape staining to front inner hinge from previous repair, creasing to upper corner of plates VI and VII, and text leaf accompanying plate VI, light creasing to upper corners of early leaves, a few small marks to rear board, overall a very good and fairly bright copy. No dust-jacket.

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TATAR, Maria M.

Spellbound. Studies on Mesmerism and Literature.

Princeton University Press, 1978. 8vo., pp.xvi,293, black cloth, gilt, 10 b/w illustrations; top edges foxed, else very good, in price-clipped dust-jacket, which has just slight creasing to extremities, else vg and now in a protective cover.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Literary Criticism

TAYLOR, Joseph.

Apparitions; or, the Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses, Developed. Being a Collection of Entertaining Stories, Founded on Fact, and Selected for the Purpose of Eradicating Those Fears, Which the Ignorant, the Weak, and the Superstitious, Are But Too Apt to Encourage, for Want of Properly Examining Into the Causes of Such Absurd Impositions.

London: Lackington, Allen, & Co., 1815. 12mo., pp.242,(ii) half bound, rebacked in textured brown cloth with gilt title, paper-covered boards, engraved frontispiece and title; cloth reinforcement to inner hinges, engraved bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, neat ink ownership autograph, dated 1902, to front free endpaper, chip to fore-edge of p.57, corner crease to frontispiece and title, some foxing and surface soil within, surface wear to boards, corners worn, a good+ copy.

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WAITE, Arthur Edward.

A New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry: (Ars Magna Latomorum), and of Cognate Instituted Mysteries: Their Rites, Literature and History.

London: Rider & Co., No date (c.1921). New, revised edition, two volumes, 8vo., pp.xxxi,458;488, blue cloth, gilt, heraldic emblem in gilt to front boards, titles in red and black, 16 b/w plates including frontispieces, further b/w in-text illustrations; ex libris the Museum and Library of the Provincial Grand Lodge of West Yorkshire, with pale inkstamp to endpapers of both volumes, light rubbing to extremities, small split to cloth at headband of Volume I, a bright and otherwise near-fine set.

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WELSFORD, Enid.

The Fool: His Social and Literary History.

London: Faber and Faber, 1935. First edition, 8vo., pp.xv,374, uncut, marbled cloth boards, pictorial spine stamped in gilt and black, b/w frontispiece and plates; sunning and light rubbing to spine, else clean and very good.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Literary Criticism

WILLIAMS, Paul V.A.

The Fool and the Trickster. Studies in Honour of Enid Welsford.

Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1979. First edition, 8vo., pp.(vi),142, brown hardcover lettered in silver, b/w plates; light foxing to top edges, slight mustiness, else very good indeed, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly toned to spine and with a light marking to pale paper, else very good.

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WILSON, Colin.

Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast.

Wellingborough, The Aquarian Press, 1987. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 174, yellow hardcover, gilt; toned to margins, light foxing to endpapers and to edges of text block, otherwise very good, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine and light foxing to edges.

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With a Biographical Introduction, And Notes Topographical & Illustrative by, GRAINGE, William.

Daemonologia: A Discourse on Witchcraft. As It Was Acted in the Family of Mr. Edward Fairfax, of Fuyston, in the County of York, in the Year 1621; Along with the Only Two Eclogues of the Same Author Known to Be in Existence.

Harrogate, R. Ackrill, 1882. First edition thus, 8vo.,pp. v,189, blue cloth, gilt; new endpapers, toned and lightly foxed to margins, with foxing to title and original free endpapers, rubbing to extremities, with light toning to spine, slight crease to upper corner of front board, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Witchcraft