Malleus Maleficarum by Kramer, Heinrich And James Sprenger - 1986

New York, NY: Dover. Good+. 1971. Reissue Edition. Paperback. 0486228029 . Creasing to cover edges, minor. Foxing (very light) to exterior edge of pages, top edge. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings.; Dover Occult; 277 pages .

London: Arrow Books, 1971. Introduction by Dennis Wheatley. 575 pages. There has been a printing error on pages 19 and 20 with loss of text at the upper corner of each page. Paperback with a creased lower rear corner. 'For any understanding of the history and nature of witchcraft and Satanism, this is the most important source. The original source'.. First Arrow Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Hardcover. Good. In slip case. Sold on behalf of the UK charity Langdon - assisting young people with disabilities.

The Folio Society, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. 1969. Second Impression. 221 pages. No dust jacket, Folio edition with slipcase. Decorative black cloth. Marbled slipcase. Black and white illustrations throughout. Translated by Montague Summers. Edited and introduced by Pennethorne Hughes. Pages remain bright and clear. Binding remains firm. Top text block edge dyed blue. Boards have slight edge wear with corner bumping. Visible sunning to spine and edges with some crushing to spine ends. Decorations to spine slightly faded, but bright and clean to front. Faint white marks to boards. Slipcase has light edge wear with minor bumping and scuffing. Mild tanning to top and bottom edges.

London: The Folio Society, 1968 Malleus Maleficarium by Jacobus Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer, The Hammer of Witchcraft. Translated by Montague Summers and edited with an introduction by Pennethorne Hughes. The Folio Society, London 1968. 4 vo., 221 pp. With 24 woodcut illustrations which were first published in Milan, in 1626, in the Compendium Maleficarum compiled by Father Franciscus Maria Guaccius. Only occassionally do they specifically illustrate the text of the Malleus, and are more intended as a complement to it. "We can never sympathize: but this history may help us to understand and perhaps to question, if need arises, our own righteousness." (Final sentence/conclusion in the book) Book is in very good+ condition except some fading to spine. Housed in a grey marbled slipcase.

London: Folio Society. Good with no dust jacket. 1969. Folio Society; Second Printing. Hardcover. Personal plate inside the front cover. Foxing (light) to the exterior edge of pages only. No markings or major defects. Light wear to cover.; B&W Illustrations; 221 pages .

London: Folio Society. 1968. First impression. Octavo, cloth boards with red and silver metallic decorations, woodcut illustrations, pp 221. Spine lightly sunned (as usually seen), some light scuffiing. Near-fine condition, in like original slipcase. First printed in 1486, and "perhaps the most important and terrible work on demonology ever written" (editor's introduction). 1st thus. Boards in slip-case.

London: The Folio Society. Fine with no dust jacket. 1968. 1st Thus (Folio Society Edition); First Printing. Hardcover. A FINE copy (looks unused) in a VG + slipcase which is covered in a grey/black marbled paper showing some very slight wear - negligible - but NO splitting, rubbing or marks. Unusually in this copy there is NO FADING TO THE SPINE, which usually turns grey with exposure to light! Black cloth over boards, with stunning, bright, red and silver flame-like decorations to the front and rear covers and bright silver decoration to the spine. Fiona Campbell did the Binding Design & B. S. Biro the title border) . Top page edge is pale blue/grey with some very slight fading to the top edge near the spine, as usual as that is where the light gets in from the way the book is housed in the slipcase. The book is internally FINE with NO Inscriptions or marks. A Wonderful 1st Thus copy of a Scarce Folio Society title. First printing with the title details printed vertically to the… Read More

London:: Folio Society,. Near Fine. 1968. Hardcover. Translated from the German by Montague Summers and edited with an introduction by Pennethorne Hughes. First edition thus. A bit of light wear along the spine, else fine in a near fine slipcase. ; 221 pages .