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The Magus - legendary magician of superhuman powers. The author considers the anthropological origins and identifies three distinct phases of the development of the myth.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 330 pages. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full black cloth boards. Previous owner's name written on front free endpaper. Tear on edge worn dust jacket. Stated First Printing. 240 pages.
96 pages. Very attractively illustrated throughout in both colour and black and white. Chapters include: The History of Jigsaw Puzzles; Themes and Variations; Schoolmasters Puzzle Their Brains; Puzzle the Devil; Nature Puzzles; Going Places; Tell Old Tales; Pieces of History; The Puzzle is the Message; Puzzle Key Pictures; plus index. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Spray of small purple dots to bottom edge and bit of half-title page. Minor bit of adhevise on glossy back cover. A lovely gift for your special jigsaw puzzle afficionado. Very nice copy. Book
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, dusty untrimmed page edges and bumping to upper corners. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped with small stains to rear and small piece missing from top of sunned spine. 270pp. The Devil's temptation of Saint Anthony. One of 625 copies of a Limited Edition. A translation into English by Rene Francis from the 1849-1856 manuscripts edited by Louis Bertrand, New edition illustrated with twelve drawings by Katherine Low.
Unpaginated. "His morality encompasses everything from aggressive criticism of corruption and hypocrisy to praise of new nations and of beautiful women." - Timothy Dunn in The Peace Bulletin. Recital handout laid in. Gift greetings upon front flyleaf else unmarked with moderate wear. Nice copy. Book
ix, 208 pages. Footnotes. Index. "A compelling yet tragic tale which, sadly, reflects little credit upon any of the participants." - dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Light wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Book
344p. 8vo. Original stiff paper wraps. "An authentic historical narrative, it takes its dialogue from the actual trial records but applies modern psychiatric knowledge to the witchcraft hysteria that swept Salem Village in 1692. It was a tragedy of individuals, which underlined as sharply as has any event in history the power of self-righteousness, fantasy, and fear to turn decent people into fana tical persecutors." OCC 8
704 p. Foxed. XLib bookplate (Juniata College). Embossed XLib stamp on title page and elsewhere. Early manuscript ownership of Michael D. Pouts?, 1862 on first fly leaf. Lacks Frontis? Lacks rear fly leaf. 185 mm. Original worn full leather binding. Title continues: "In A Period Of More Than A Half Century; With Reflections On Various Subjects, Religious, Moral, Political And Prophetic. Fourth Edition, Revised, Corrected And Improved." Lorenzo Dow (1777-1834) was an eccentric itinerant American preacher, said to have preached to more people than any other preacher of his era. He was an important figure in the Second Great Awakening. This autobiography at one time was the second best-selling book in the United States, exceeded only by the Bible. S&S/AI 18605. Very good. Hardbound. AI BX 1 x2
4 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus; original red cloth, backstrips lettered in white, red tops, backstrips a little faded, edges very lightly dust-soiled else a very good bright clean set. The set comprises: Vol. I: Bibliography, General Introduction, Webster's Life, Webster's Imitation, The White Devil; Vol. II: The Duchess of Malfi; The Devil's Law-Case; Vol. III: A Cure for a Cuckold, Appius and Virginia, Shorter Poems, A Monumental Column, Moments of Honour; Vol. IV: Characters, Anything for a Quiet Life, The Fair Maid of the Inn, Appendices & Index. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE. NCBEL I, 1698.
8vo., Second Edition, with photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; pale blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in in 1977. VERY SCARCE.
24 pages. Features: Tinkering with our Game Laws; A New Deal for America's Wild Water-Fowl; New Hampshire Field Trials; Vitamin A Deficiency in Dogs; Dog breeding information; Veterinary Q & A; Dog ads; Classy one-page photo ad for Radium Springs (near Albany in South Georgia) shows hunters and dog at work; Half-page illustrated ad for Lewis' Lye on front cover (keeps dogs free from disease); and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Back cover loose but present, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present); original red cloth, gilt back, uncut, top a little dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Uncommon in this condition
Book shows light wear to covers only, with bumped lower corners, straight upper. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind, text block is pristine. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, one small closed tear, price clipped, sun faded at spine. 307 pages with very nice fine-line b&w illustrations, sections on: Tomb bats, False vampires, Golden moles, Walabies, Bandicoots, Opossums, Tasmanian devil, Spiny anteater, Platypus, Pikas, Hares, Mountain beaver, Bamboo rats, Banana mice, Eared seals, Walrus, Sea-cows, etc.
8vo., First Edition, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at head and tail of backstrip. SCARCE IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS CONDITION.
8vo. First Edition; handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco sides with gilt frame border back with raised bands ruled in gilt second and fourth compartments lettered ands ruled in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt laid endpapers a most attracti
Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 583 p. Seytanin genel tarihi.= [Histoire gênêrale du diable]. Translated by Isik Ergüden.
Features: Cordell Bank - an underwater island; Preserving a common heritage - Treatment of marine artifacts; Tiger of the sea whips; Queen conch at the crossroads; Bermuda mystery waves; Garadiavolo - the devil monster hoax; Save the babies - Strategies of marine animals; there was a Moby Dick; The fuzzy sea butterfly. Sound copy. Book
In-8, 666p. (!!!) Avec quelques illustrations dans et hors texte. Bibliographie démoniaque en fin de volume. Petit accroc avec dépot de papier collant en première de couverture, sinon bel exemplaire.
in-8°, 232 p, front., -, bibliogr., broche, couverture illustree Bel exemplaire. [PH-1]
475p. Drawings by Christopher Simon. Top edge dust spotted. Small 4to. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, slightly soiled with some loss on rear flap. Hardbound. First Edition. Nice copy. GAMES BOX 2
Bulletin de l'Association Cause Freudienne Rhône-Alpes, n° 2, septembre 1995, 110 pp., annotation en première page, broché, légères traces d'usage, bon état.
Features: He Met the Devil; Pet Brown, Championship Wrestler; When Annie Oakley was Accused of Theft; Butch and the Fine & Dandy Kid; Bucketfull of Pay Dirt; A kind word for Lucius; Trails Grown Dim; The Deadly Garment; Death Hollow; Six Horses; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Hosstail's Small Talk - 'Me - An Old-Timer?'; The Soldier Who Never Quit - General Guy V. Henry; The Baron of Cananea - William E. Green; Through the Black Range - Solitide has returned to the Devil Mountains; Indian Women Warriors; Walt Coburn's Tally Book; Wife of a Panhandle Sheriff - Sophia Connell; A Locked Door - memories from northern Colorado country; Mathew 'Bones' Hooks of Amarillo - a story of a black cowboy and white flowers; Where Schoolboys Packed Pistols - Tombstone; Rekindling Camp Fires - the exploits of Ben Arnold (Connor) (Wa-si-cu Tam-a-he-ca) Part III of the authentic narrative of sixty years in the Old West as Indian fighter, gold miner, cowboy, hunter and army scout; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
Mm 235x240 Volume in copertina rigida, sovraccoperta originale, 211 pagine profusamente illustrate in nero e a colori. Libro in condizioni di nuovo - brandnew. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
