Lanham MD: Vestal Press, Inc., 1998. Hardcover. xviii, 218p., numerous b&w photes, mostly production stills (not well-reproduced), first edition in naugahyde boards titled gilt and glossy dust jacket. A near-immaculate copy: jacket very faintly rubbed but still glossy (not edgeworn nor price-clipped), no ownership or other marks (except our SKU..... More
Cat.No: 230631
London: Constable, 1948. Pamphlet. 64p., 5x7.25 inches, theatre edition (acting edition) play script with some light markings, ownership name on cover else good reprint in wraps. Supernatural comedy set in Scotland in a Free Kirk Manse during WWII where a pair of soldiers are billeted while manning a big gun..... More
Cat.No: 275256
Rio de Janeiro / Brasilia DF: Federacao Espirita Brasileira, Departamento Editorial, 1956 but later printing. Paperback. 273p., softbound in 7x5 inch decorated wraps, light pressure marks to the glossy covers, the ffep sports a longish presentation signed, in Portuguese with Chicago and Brasil figuring in, an otherwise nmarked, clean, and..... More
Cat.No: 287758
Forestville, CA: Vajra Press, 1980. 81p., very good in wraps, plastic comb binding. Vajra Press was associated with the Chakpori-Ling Foundation in Louisiana. Chinese-American Buddhist discusses superstition and pseudoscience. More
Cat.No: 179474
New York: Benjamin Blom, Inc., Publishers, 1972. Hardcover. iv, 156p., vii, reprint of an item first published 1876, London/Hong Kong. Illustrated with a few calligraphic plates. Hardbound in 9.5x6.5 inch orange cloth boards spine-titled brown. About fine: perfectly sound, and absent any soil or markings. More
Cat.No: 276219
Sydney, Australia: Angus and Robertson/Jacaranda Press, 1965. Hardcover. xii, 260 p., cloth boards in dust jacket, jacket is a bit dust-soiled with some silverfishing to spine titling. An examination of historical and contemporary relations between Aborigines and whites in Australia. Illustrated with B&W photos. More
Cat.No: 119691
Baltimore: [Baptist Congress], 1907. 13p., nice presswork on laidlined paperstock, softbound in 9x6 inch gray wraps, a scholarly treatment by a believer. Cover stock is not alkaline and its margins are deeply toned, item has been handled leaving crimps and a bent corner-tip, in general a good copy ("good-only"), sound..... More
Cat.No: 261257
London: The Theosophical Publishing House Ltd, 1974. 54 pgs, hardcover; chipped dust jacket, otherwise in very good condition. Reprint of the fourth and revides edition. In the village of Cottingley, Yorkshire, 1917-1920, two girls claimed to take photographs of fairies, which eventually attracted the attention of Sir Conan Doyle as..... More
Cat.No: 331230
Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2016. ix, 260p., paperback, in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 349710
Strangnas, Sweden: Dast Forlag AB, 1973. Paperback. 192/3, texts divided between Swedish and English (not necessarily translated one to the other), numerous b&w period images, stills, ads scattered through, softbound in 8.5x6 inch decorated black wraps. Externally somewhat abraded along extremities but quite sound. internally clean and sound, and Inscribed..... More
Cat.No: 281792
Chicago: Aldine, 1970. Paperback. xv+334p., frontis, preface, orthography, introduction, appendixes, bibliography, index, illustrated with drawings, tables, photos and maps. Anthropological study of the issue of hostility and violence between primitive peoples, focussed on the Dugum Dani of New Guinea. Includes texts of songs of the people. A 10x7 inch softbound..... More
Cat.No: 76469
New York: National Travel Club, 1936. Hardcover. xiii, 205p., illustrated as called for plus a doublespread line map bound in at rear, first American edition black cloth boards gilt & blind. A nice production, with tinted top edge and well-reproduced pictures, very good condition. No dust jacket. Author Hides was..... More
Cat.No: 296577
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980. Magazine. 48p., magazine-format journal in 11x8.5 inch glossy wraps, coated paperstock with mostly b&w and some color exhibit photography; this issue devoted to netsuke. Has a bad small ding to back cover margin, is generally a little edgeworn and rubbed with a...... More
Cat.No: 229686
New York: James Miller, 1876. Hardcover. xi, 183p., original embossed black cloth chipped at the head and tail of the spine, with a small ugly gap at the top of joint; card showing at corner-tips, previous owner's name pencilled on title page. An else clean, sound, unmarked copy. An opinionated..... More
Cat.No: 205649
Boston: Bedford/St.Martin's, 2008. Paperback. xv, 159p., illustrated with a few scattered b&w period graphics plus the vivid color cover plate. Softbound in 8x5.5 inch glossy green decorated wraps; sound, entirely clean, and unmarked in any way. The Bedford Series in history and culture. More
Cat.No: 332258
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The Hague: Mouton & Co, 1967. Staplebound Wraps. Offprint, pp.117-144, side-stapled in 9.5x6.5 inch plain printed grey wraps. (Please note, cover titling simply shows "Southwestern".) A sound exemplar that has been heavily, if neatly, underlined in red pencil, whole paragraphs here & there throughout; it belonged to a medico who..... More
Cat.No: 335962
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1973. Paperback. viii, 67p., 8.5x11 inches, texts reproduced from typescript, a dozen introductory pages are in English, the pastorela entirely in Spanish, five pages of sheet music at rear, very good paperback in white with some stains on rear cover. Latin American Folklore Series no..... More
Cat.No: 206080
New York: Soho, 1995. Hardcover. 262p., first printing in clothbacked boards and dust jacket. Entirely sound, clean and unmarked, a very good copy. Price-clipped dj. First novel by the Afro-Barbadian American writer. More
Cat.No: 34127
Catskill, NY: Press-Tige Publishing, 1996. Hardcover. 200p., hardbound in cinnamon cloth gilt and glossy dust jacket; first printing, self-published. Very good, a clean unmarked copy. Check out the dj author photo, nearly as strange as his plot . Plenty of violence physical to match violence spiritual. "This is a story..... More
Cat.No: 205633
Middlesex / Victoria: Penguin Books Ltd., 1974. Mass Market Paperback. 210p., illustrated with charts, diagrams, a line map and the color cover picture; softbound, a small 7x4 inch glossy paperback, here & there find slight foxing, else clean and unmarked and entirely sound. A very good copy. More
Cat.No: 296884
New York: Broadway Publishing Co., 1910. Boards. 424, [8]p., boards. Bound in publisher's red cloth, block stamped title and gilt stamped decorative vignette. Boards dust soiled. Lacking illustration opposite page 281. Good. Civll War fiction with supernatural and gothic elements. Combines and expands upon two of the author's novels. More
Cat.No: 320459
New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. Hardcover. 245p., cloth-covered boards, 11.25x8.75 inches landscape format, profusely illus., very good condition in a price-clipped and lightly edgeworn dust jacket. More
Cat.No: 296988
New York: Viking Press, 2001. Hardcover. 181p., very good first edition, first printing stated in boards and unclipped dj. The poet and his longtime partner were deep into the supernatural and especially the Ouija board. More
Cat.No: 241568
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010. Hardcover. xiv, 262p., numerous b&w plates and vignettes, and a few images in colorphoto; hardbound in 11.5x8.5 inch black cloth boards lettered in silverfoil and enclosed in the dust jacket. An as-new copy, entirely sound, square, clean and unmarked. More
Cat.No: 289351
New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1961. Hardcover. xiii, 248p., illustrated with a number of b&w photos on glazed inserted stock and endpaper maps in monochrome (two different ones), hardbound in 8x5 inch dark blue cloth boards gilt and enclosed in its colorphoto dust jacket. Book itself is slightly cocked..... More
Cat.No: 297971
