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66 pages. Features: 6 Reasons why Women Become Prostitutes; Make Money Tanning Rattlesnake Leather; Torture Tests for Manhood; How Waitresses Tease for Tips; American Men Enslaved by Mexican Sex Drugs; How We Caught the Atom Spies - as told by Edward R. Thompson, Special Agent, Royal Canadian Mounted Police; The Sex Cult of Satanism; Exposing the Racketeers of Death - The Funeral Director Racket; Tuna Men are Tough Fighters; The Man Who Lived Two Lives - Thomas Griffiths Wainewright; Cover Girl - Shirley Roden; Will Rex Layne be another Jack Dempsey; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
Pagine: 416 . Formato: 8° . Rilegatura: Cartonato similpelle con applicata copertina originale . Stato: Buono . Caratteristiche: Incredibile opera ottocentesca nel clima gotico. Bruniture. (GR) Foto disponibili .
2 works bound together: 1.(Da Capo…): [iv +] 132pp. & II.(Der Teufel…): [viii +] 148pp., cart.cover with back in cloth, few foxing in text, VG, rare, R31721
506pp., Edition originale de 1861, 23cm., brochure originale usée et dos renforcé (bien protégée par une couv. suppl. en papier cristal), cachet sur la p.d.t., qqs. rousseurs (texte toujours bien lisible), Cfr. Caillet II-6332 : "Ce livre fut retiré du commerce et en partie détruit. Les documents y sont précis et exacts", bien rare, dans l'état, Q106662
iv,331pp., signé avec dédicace par l'auteur, reliure cart. (dos en toile avec titre doré, plats marbrés), 18cm., peu de rousseurs, bel état, rare
Features: Satanism and the World Order - Professor Gilbert Murray explains how "The spirit of hatred, which rejoiced in any wide-spread disaster that was also a disaster to the world's rulers, is perhaps more rife today than it has been for a thousand years"; Santo Domingo - The Land of Bullet-Holes - Photo-illustrated article by Harry A. Franck describes how, crossing between Haiti and Santo Domingo, he found striking differences in the two peoples; Paradise Shares (fiction); The Making of a Book-Collector - William Harris Arnold; From a Door-Step in Leinster (Life in small Irish towns), I. The Door-Step, II. A Girl for the Kitchen; The Strange Paumotu Atolls - Frederick O'Brien describes his visit; Aaron Harwood (fiction); The Tide of Affairs - Comment on the times; Quaint Old Boston - Photo-illustrated article; Georgios Venizelos and Hellas; Her Promised Land (fiction); Mecca's Revolt Against the Turk - An explanation of current difficulties in the Middle East subsequent to Emir Feisal setting himself up as king of all Syria in March, 1920 - article with photos of Mecca, Medina, T.E. Lawrence, and The Emir Feisal; The Success of the Season - Theatre business is growing; Musical Adventures of the Season; Where is America Going? - The third (and final) letter by American reporter Webb Waldron to Bernard Roberval, French historian and philosopher; Investment and Banking; Colour frontispiece illustration "The Painted Desert", by Albert Groll. pp. 289-432, 56 [ads]. Includes a particularly wonderful assortment of nostalgic ads, with full-page color ads for Old Colony Trust Company of Boston (featuring John Hull, the mint master of the Massachusetts Bay Colony), W. & J. Sloane (rugs) of Fifth Ave., NYC, Indestructo Trunks, The Jordan Silhouette motor car, The Templar Motor Company, Mercer Motors Company, The Pantasote Company, Macbeth-Evans Glass Company, Kellogg's Krumbled Bran, G-E (General Electric) Fans, Davey Tree Surgeons, and Beech-Nut Ginger Ale. Somewhat above-average external wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Lacking back cover. A sound copy of this fascinating and informative vintage issue. Book
Cm. 20, mezza pelle verde con tassello e fregi in oro a dorso, pag. XL, 318 più antiporta inciso in rame. Interessante opera di demonologia, sulle testimonianze dei rapporti tra demoni e umani. Lieve foxing ma ottimo esemplare in solida legatura. Non in Graesse, Brunet ne' Rosenthal.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Paperback. 8vo. (18 x 12 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 80 p. Probably taken from a volume. Minor wear on spine. Light fading on pages. Otherwise a very good copy. This interesting, very rare, and also pseudo-historical first book penned specifically on the Yezîdî people by an Ottoman statesman, initially prepared as a report and then published in 1912, before WWI in Ottoman Cairo. One of only three written Eastern sources about this interesting community that has been subject to extremely controversial approaches throughout history. The first is the travel corpus of Evliya Çelebi, the second is 'Abede-i Iblis', and the third is "Al-Yazidiyya Kadîmen wa Hadisen", which was published in Arabic in Beirut in 1934. Yezîdîs, a member of a Kurdish religious minority found primarily in northern Iraq, southeastern Turkey, northern Syria, the Caucasus region and parts of Iran. The Yezîdî religion includes elements of ancient Iranian religions as well as elements of Judaism, Nestorian Christianity and Islam. Although scattered and probably numbering merely between 200,000 and 1,000,000, the Yezîdîs have a well-organized society, with a chief sheikh as the supreme religious head and an emir, or prince, as the secular head. The origins of the Yezîdî faith can be traced to areas of the Kurdish mountains of northern Iraq where pockets of devotion to the fallen Umayyad dynasty persisted long after the death of the last Umayyad caliph, the half-Kurdish Marwan II, in 750. Some descendants of the dynasty settled in the area, further encouraging the development of mystical traditions in which the Umayyad lineage was prominently figured. In the early 12th century, Sheikh 'Adî ibn Musâfir, a Sufi and a descendant of the Umayyads, settled in Lâlish, north of Mosul, and began a Sufi order known as the Adwiyyah. Although his own teachings were strictly orthodox, the beliefs of his followers soon blended with local traditions. A distinct Yezîdî community living in the environs of Mosul appears in historical sources as early as the middle of the 12th century. This book includes descriptions of the Yezîdîs , albeit all the prejudices within it, on their geography, origins, mythology, religions, cosmogony, etc. The book has a long chapter on Yezîdîs' chief divine Malak ?âûs [or, Tavus] ("Peacock Angel"). Malak Taus has often been identified by outsiders with the Judeo-Christian figure of Satan, causing the Yezîdîs to be inaccurately described as "Devil worshippers", as seen in this pseudo-historical book as well. Özege 24.; OCLC 83228795.
